Study: build times for D programs

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2012-07-25 00:18, Jonathan M Davis wrote:

> I don't have any hard evidence for it, but I've always gotten the impression
> that it was templates, mixins, and CTFE which really slowed down compilation.
> Certainly, they increase the memory consumption of the compiler by quite a
> bit. My guess would be that if we were looking to improve the compiler's
> performance, that's where we'd need to focus. But we'd have to actually profile
> the compiler on a variety of projects to be sure of that (which is at least
> partially related to what Andrei is suggesting).

We did some profiling on derelict in the process of adding support for 
D2. This was mostly testing string mixins, the result was: It's a lot 
faster to use few string mixins containing a lot of code then using many 
string mixins containing very little code.

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/Jacob Carlborg