Andrei's Google Talk

[Tomek Sowiński]

Andrei Alexandrescu napisał:

> On 08/04/2010 01:38 PM, Tomek Sowiński wrote:
>> Andrei Alexandrescu napisał:
>>
>>> I tested on two laptops (Ubuntu and Mac OSX). I compiled the two
>>> languages' standard libraries by using the provided makefiles, after
>>> touching all .go and all .d files involved. Then I divided the
>>> compilation times by the line counts of *.go/*.d files as wc has them
>>> and compared the results.
>>>
>>> On OSX dmd was 4.3 times faster. On Ubuntu, the ratio was 4.45.
>>
>> Was D with or without --unittest? I'm asking because unittests are
>> instances and plenty of Phobos is templates for which AFAIK much work is
>> deferred to instantiation.
> 
> No -unittest. In Phobos the unittest build turns -unittest on separately
> for each module, so I can't quickly test the build speed with -unittest
> on. That being said, there's still plenty of non-template code in Phobos.
> 
> BTW Phobos is built in release mode (as I assume go's library is).
> Building in debug mode reduces build time by more than a third.

Hm.. OK. I'm looking forward to round 2, measures taken at the end of the food chain -- a large executable program. Hopefully both 
languages will soon have enough speciments to choose from.


Tomek