tooling quality and some random rant

[Walter Bright]

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)

You can do the same in D using .di files.