DMD 1.038 and 2.022 releases

[Denis Koroskin]

On Mon, 15 Dec 2008 17:37:27 +0300, bearophile <bearophileHUGS at lycos.com>  
wrote:

> Bill Baxter:
>> For me, V1.038 compiles my code but takes a really really really long
>> time to do so.
>> It now takes  1 min 20 secs for a full build, when it used to compile
>> in 13 seconds.
>> Forget the 60% slowdown from LDC -- this is 515% slower!
>> (building with DSSS and tango)
>
> I have tested the compilation timings of my dlibs (using 'bud'), they  
> contain lot of templates.
> Compilation timings (with unittest), no run:
>   V1.037: 11.33 s
>   V1.038: 11.52 s
> The size of the resulting exe is the same (1.887 MB).
>
> (Without unittests the compilation is much faster, about 0.47 seconds  
> for 1.038).
> So it seems my compilation timings are grown, but not much.
>
> I have just found out that 'bud' isn't using both cores of my CPU. Why??
>

Neither does DMD (bud is just a thin wrapper around DMD).
I use CodeBlocks and it has "number of parallel builds" option which is  
very helpful.
DSSS on Linux can do that, too, IIRC.

> Bye,
> bearophile