On the performance of building D programs

[Vladimir Panteleev]

On Friday, 5 April 2013 at 14:01:31 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 2013-04-05 15:45, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
>
>> -r should be disabled for such cases - thus, enabled only when 
>> there's
>> one .d file and no .obj / .lib files. Although specifying 
>> library files
>> on the compiler's command line is a valid use case, compatible 
>> with
>> recursive compilation, I think we should promote the use of 
>> pragma(lib)
>> instead.
>
> Why not when there's multiple source files?

1) It will break tools like rdmd, for cases when the tool knows 
the exact set of modules that needs to be compiled
2) When would that be useful?