What is the compilation model of D?

[Peter Alexander]

On Wednesday, 25 July 2012 at 08:06:23 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> Yea, my understanding is that full-build times measured in days 
> are (or
> used to be, don't know if they still are) also typical of 
> high-budget
> C++-based videogames.

You must be thinking of full data rebuilds, not code recompiles.

There's no way a game could take over a day to compile and still 
produce an executable that would fit on a console.

Several minutes is more typical. Maybe up to 30 minutes in bad 
cases.