how to get timestamp in compile-time?

[Simen kjaeraas]

On Tue, 23 Mar 2010 08:35:54 +0100, Zólyomi Istvan  
<istvan.zolyomi at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> recently I've been experimenting with metaprogramming in D. I've been  
> trying to create a simple compiler benchmark that can be used like the  
> following oversimplified code:
>
> const time starttime = gettime();
> mixin(code); // or any other metaprogramming activity (or even simple  
> code)
> const time endtime = gettime();
> pragma(msg, "Compiled in ", endtime - starttime);
>
> It works fine with the exception of getting the current time.  
> Unfortunately, I've found no ctfe-capable library function to get the  
> time, and it turned out that special tokens like __TIME__ and its kind  
> are evaluated once during compilation, so it always returns the same  
> time for the same compilation unit.
>
> Do you have any idea how to get the time in compile-time?
>
> thanks
>
> István

Currently not possible, as far as I know.

If you must, try instead to make a tiny program that launches DMD,
and times its running time.

-- 
Simen