D slower than C++ in compile time

[Alexander Panek]

Ary Borenszweig wrote:
> Frank Benoit escribió:
>> Gregor once explained why build tools need to call DMD once per file:
>> http://www.digitalmars.com/webnews/newsgroups.php?art_group=digitalmars.D&article_id=57473 
>>
>>
>> This makes dsss look like it is slow, but actually this is a 
>> concequence of a DMD workaround.
>>
>> For the DWT library this would lead to compile times >15 minutes!
>>
>> In the past I found the compile times always a big argument for D. 
>> Hopefully this point gets attention at digitalmars ;)
> 
> Descent will probably do incremental compiling in the next release. Does 
> what Gregor say also affects it? If so, vote++ :)

IIRC, Gregor made this change because all-at-once compilation causes 
some code generation errors/bugs because some code generated code is not 
marked correctly. I don't remember the details, though, or what it 
exactly affects..