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by mhh__ 1963 days ago
I can build the D compiler (500k lines?) Warts and all in a second in my machine - and that's code that's not particularly complicated, but not at all optimized for compile times realistically.
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To be fair, due to the fact that DMD can't depend on phobos it doesn't use a lot of the features that end up making D compiles slow, like lambdas and deep metaprogramming. DMD is in a way one of the least representative examples of a large D project.