Article: Increasing the D Compiler Speed by Over 75%

[Walter Bright]

On 7/29/2013 4:45 AM, Leandro Motta Barros wrote:
> Well, I kinda have the same feeling when using it. For my ~10kloc
> project, I still haven't felt a real need to use a real build system.
> I just dmd *.d. If any measurable time passes without any error
> message appearing in the console, I know that my compiled successfully
> (and it is the linker that is running now).

That goes back to the interesting effect that every order of magnitude 
improvement in compile speed has a transformative effect on development procedure.

(For example, if it took overnight to compile, Brad Roberts' autotester would be 
nigh unusable in its existing form.)