Andrei's Google Talk

[Adam Ruppe]

On 8/3/10, Andrei Alexandrescu <SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote:
> BTW, speed of compilation of very short programs is not very relevant as
> long as it's reasonably good.

I don't know. Large programs is certainly very important, but I think
small ones are too. The reason is a very quick compile on small
programs means you can compete directly with the interpreted languages
for quick toys.

Imagine being able to use rdmd --eval where you would use sed and
grep, and see quick changes work just as easily. I'd love it. (rdmd's
caching does a really good job for repeated uses, but when toying with
sed, I often keep tweaking the line until it works. In that case, rdmd
is just a wee bit too slow to recompile.)