D support for the Meson build system

[Atila Neves via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Saturday, 8 April 2017 at 19:11:35 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote:
> On Friday, 7 April 2017 at 07:57:02 UTC, kinke wrote:
>> So while compiling each file separately in parallel is 
>> potentially much much faster, the produced release binary may 
>> be slower due to less/no cross-module inlining (e.g., LDC's 
>> option is still experimental and known to have issues).
>
> In fact single-module compilation is slower than package 
> compilation most of the time due to the redundant 
> parsing&semantic of common imports. As an extreme example, last 
> time I tried, single-module compilation for gtkd was ~10x 
> slower than compiling the library at once. Savings on 
> recompilation hardly make up for this huge overhead.
> Overall I'd recommend organizing and building subpackages when 
> a project becomes too big.

Per package is significantly faster.

As far as I know the only build system that does this by default 
for D is reggae.

Atila