compiling dmd

[Don]

On 31.12.2011 15:55, Marco Leise wrote:
> Am 29.12.2011, 09:16 Uhr, schrieb Don <nospam at nospam.com>:
>
>> On 28.12.2011 13:14, Timon Gehr wrote:
>>> 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.
>> AFAIK there has never been a failure which wasn't with one of:
>> (no flags)
>> -O -release -inline
>> -g -O -release -inline
>>
>> But why do the Phobos unit tests take so long? They used to take a
>> matter of seconds, now they take forever.
>>
>> On D1, they still take only about 10 seconds. On D2 they are now
>> longer than the compiler tests with the minimal flag options.
>
> 2.055 hat problems with -O -release -inline -noboundscheck (three of
> those anyway, including noboundscheck)

Ah, yes. -release used to include -noboundscheck. Thanks.
The list should be
(no flags)
-O -release -inline -noboundscheck
-g -O -release -inline -noboundscheck