D slower than C++ in compile time
Christopher Wright
dhasenan at gmail.com
Sat Feb 16 08:04:47 PST 2008
Frank Benoit wrote:
> 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 ;)
Ditch DMD for serious work. And the frontend has enough bugs....
It would be nice Walter could add a couple people who just manage
bugfixes, then put the dmd frontend on dsource.
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