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by gmueckl 2737 days ago
It is very fast for certain projects, but link times on some can make up for that. I have a toy program using vibe.d that takes around 1s to compile and 10s to link. I could probably make that faster by switching to gold, but I didn't yet.
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e12e 2737 days ago
I'm not sure how anything over 100ms could be considered "fast compile" for a toy program... Basically Pascal, or simple c compilers like tcc should be the benchmark imnho.

That's not to say I don't allow for trade-offs.. I gladly trade some milliseconds (or, grudgingly seconds) for features.

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gmueckl 2737 days ago
Most of the compile time of that particular program is spent parsing HTML templates and converting them to D code. This is all done by D code provided by a library that runs at compile time as part of a template function instantiation in my code. So the compile time is inflated a bit in this case.
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