Release D 2.075.0
Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
digitalmars-d-announce at puremagic.com
Thu Jul 20 01:08:58 PDT 2017
On 7/20/2017 12:19 AM, Patrick Schluter wrote:
> version 2.067 that still had the C++ frontend took more than 100 seconds. I
> think if the backend is translated to D, building the compiler will take not
> more than 2 seconds.
> To put it in perspective, building gcc with only C and C++ support takes around
> 15 minutes on my machine and clang+llvm is ridiculously slow to compile with not
> far from 1 hour compilation.
> Ok, these projects are much, much bigger but that doesn't change the fact that
> C++ is slow to compile.
DMC++ takes about 15 seconds to do an optimized build of itself on my old
Windows XP machine. (Of course, it doesn't use STL, or any templates for that
matter. The code predates templates.)
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