compiling dmd

Timon Gehr timon.gehr at gmx.ch
Wed Dec 28 04:14:26 PST 2011


On 12/28/2011 10:53 AM, Peter Alexander wrote:
> On 27/12/11 8:40 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> On 12/27/11 2:38 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
>>> On 12/27/2011 12:28 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>>> One good realization to make is how less efficient that makes you. You
>>>> got used
>>>> to that overhead so plentily, you consider it now par for the course.
>>>
>>> What takes time is running the unittests, not compiling dmd.
>>
>> Then _that_ is what you consider par for the course! :o)
>>
>> Andrei
>
> Has anyone looked into what causes the unittests to take so long? I find
> it hard to believe that they need to take as long as they do.

They have to be run for many different combinations of compiler flags iirc.


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