On the performance of building D programs

[Andrej Mitrovic]

On 4/7/13, Martin Nowak <code at dawg.eu> wrote:
> 2.
> driver assumes that foo.bar depends on foo.baz and has a cached obj for
> foo.baz:
> dmd -c foo/bar -rb -rxstd.* -rxfoo.baz

How is this a problem? If foo.baz is not needed, the linker won't link
it in. All the driver has to do is list the modules which shouldn't be
recompiled if their modification time hasn't changed.