Study: build times for D programs

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On Tuesday, 24 July 2012 at 14:34:58 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
> Hello,
>
>
> I was talking to Walter on how to define a good study of D's 
> compilation speed. We figured that we clearly need a good 
> baseline, otherwise numbers have little meaning.
>
> One idea would be to take a real, non-trivial application, 
> written in both D and another compiled language. We then can 
> measure build times for both applications, and also measure the 
> relative speeds of the generated executables.
>
> Although it sounds daunting to write the same nontrivial 
> program twice, it turns out such an application does exist: 
> dmdscript, a Javascript engine written by Walter in both C++ 
> and D. It has over 40KLOC so it's of a good size to play with.
>
> What we need is a volunteer who dusts off the codebase (e.g. 
> the D source is in D1 and should be adjusted to compile with 
> D2), run careful measurements, and show the results. Is anyone 
> interested?
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Andrei

You can try testing DMD (written in C++) against DDMD (written in 
D). I don't think you can find more fair comparison (both 
projects are in sync - though dated - and project size is fairly 
large).