I did an unscientific comparison more than 1 decade ago... yep D was pretty fast (at least compared to g++). Of course FPC was faster. BTW, there are several D

I did an unscientific comparison more than 1 decade ago... yep D was pretty fast (at least compared to g++). Of course FPC was faster. BTW, there are several D compilers: - DMD (the de-facto compiler written by Walter). Previously written in C++, now is self-hosted. It has it's own code codegen. - LDC (using LLVM) - GDC (using GCC)