Speed up compilation in Visual D

[Alex]

On Sunday, 28 April 2019 at 12:22:15 UTC, Rainer Schuetze wrote:
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> On 28/04/2019 13:47, Alex wrote:
>> On Sunday, 28 April 2019 at 08:25:18 UTC, Rainer Schuetze 
>> wrote:
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>>> On 26/04/2019 09:52, Rainer Schuetze wrote:
>>>>> As if when generating the command line for single file 
>>>>> compilation you forgot to append the additional options 
>>>>> string to it.
>>>> Yes, looks like a bug in Visual D: it adds the additional 
>>>> command line options to the link, but not to the single file 
>>>> compiler invocations.
>>>>
>>>
>>> fixed in https://github.com/dlang/visuald/releases/tag/v0.49.2
>> 
>> Man, it's really slow compiling!
>> 
>> It took over 3 minutes to compile the same project that 
>> compiles in 10 seconds with combined compile.
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> Yes, it's usually that bad if you have a good number of 
> dependencies
> (imports).
>
So I removed most of the gtkd import modules I wasn't using and 
it went from 810 to 540. Didn't speed anything up but maybe 1/2 a 
second.

I guess the compiler has no self profiling to figure out where it 
is spending most of it's time?