D dropped in favour of C# for PSP emulator

[Paulo Pinto]

Well, in most the big C++ projects I was involved in the
past, a full clean build would take at least an hour.

Am 12.05.2012 00:34, schrieb SomeDude:
> On Friday, 11 May 2012 at 21:46:55 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>> "Steven Schveighoffer" <schveiguy at yahoo.com> wrote in message
>> news:op.wd5o86s3eav7ka at steves-laptop...
>> On Fri, 11 May 2012 13:47:05 -0400, Alex Rønne Petersen
>> <xtzgzorex at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Complicated language structure? Long compilation times?
>>>
>>> I can attest that on certain types of projects (i.e. template heavy),
>>> D's lightning fast compilation time goes out the window. It has
>>> improved greatly, but there are still some improvements that can be
>>> made.
>>>
>>> For instance, dcollections, which is about 10kloc takes 17 seconds to
>>> compile all the unit tests. It used to be well over a minute, till
>>> walter changed a linear lookup to a hash lookup on the symbol table.
>>> There's an outstanding issue which is similar still in bugzilla:
>>
>> Meh, that's still nothing compared to C++. The sample games included with
>> Marmalade and the Marm-based IwGame engine take *serveral* minutes to
>> compile - and those are just sample programs!
>>
>> Template-heavy projects don't throw D's lightning fast compilation
>> times out
>> the window, it just makes them less lightning-like. It's still an
>> order of
>> magnature faster than equivalent, or even merely similar, C++.
>
> I remember g++ taking dozens of minutes on a SINGLE compilation unit on
> FreeFEM++, a very heavily templated project. Large C++ projects with
> lots of templates can take several hours to compile. So one has to be
> very careful with libraries like Boost on large projects, compilation
> times can explode.