D dropped in favour of C# for PSP emulator

[Nick Sabalausky]

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"Paulo Pinto" <pjmlp at progtools.org> wrote in message 
news:joku8g$1kd9$1 at digitalmars.com...
> 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.
>