tooling quality and some random rant

[Peter Alexander]

On 13/02/11 10:10 AM, Peter Alexander wrote:
> On 13/02/11 6:52 AM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>> D compiles a few orders of magnitude faster than C++ does. Better
>> handling
>> of incremental building might be nice for really large projects, but it's
>> really not a big issue for D, not like it is for C++.
>
> The only person I know that's worked on large D projects is Tomasz, and
> he claimed that he was getting faster compile times in C++ due to being
> able to do incremental builds.
>
> "Walter might claim that DMD is fast, but it’s not exactly blazing when
> you confront it with a few hundred thousand lines of code. With C/C++,
> you’d split your source into .c and .h files, which mean that a
> localized change of a .c file only requires the compilation of a single
> unit. Take an incremental linker as well, and C++ compiles faster than
> D. With D you often have the situation of having to recompile everything
> upon the slightest change." (http://h3.gd/devlog/?p=22)

Turns out this may have been solved: 
https://bitbucket.org/h3r3tic/xfbuild/wiki/Home