On 8/3/10, Walter Bright <newshou...@digitalmars.com> wrote: > Andrei put together a benchmark that shows that D compiles 4 times faster > than Go.
I've found D1 tends to be much faster than D2 as well. The dmd version 1 is so fast that I often think it doesn't even run! D2's (relative) slowness I've tracked down to import std.stdio; - it instantiates a bunch of templates just on import. We should be able to fix this with a little work, and put D even further ahead of the competition. Then, just ditch that sloooow GNU ld on linux. On a related note, I've gotta say Digital Mars has always been way ahead of the competition on speed. DMC was my first compiler. dmc+optlink is just insanely fast, even on my old Pentium 1. When I first went to Linux+gcc, it was a huge shock. Compared to dmc, gcc is a snail. And it was even worse back then! The Digital Mars EMCAScript implementation is insanely fast too. It comes in at about 80x faster than IE6 - its contemporary competition. Now, the new browsers beat it out by several times, but it took them a lot of years to catch up.
