Incremental compilation with DMD

[Walter Bright]

Tom S wrote:
> Walter Bright wrote:
>> What you can try is creating a database that is basically a lib (call 
>> it A.lib) of all the modules compiled with -lib. Then recompile all 
>> modules that depend on changed modules in one command, also with -lib, 
>> call it B.lib. Then for all the obj's in B, replace the corresponding 
>> ones in A.
> 
> That's what I'm getting at :)

With this approach, you could wind up with some 'dead' obj files in 
A.lib, but aside from a bit of bloat in the lib file, they'll never wind 
up in the executable.