phobos dependencies

Andrei Alexandrescu SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org
Sat Dec 21 20:23:17 PST 2013


On 12/21/13 1:38 PM, Dmitry Olshansky wrote:
> As it stands the only thing lazy buys us is "pay as you touch" contrary
> to "pay as you name the intent to touch". The problem is that the
> payment is for the whole stock of the said "shop". I see second problem
> (granularity of imports) as far more critical then the first (condition
> under which the pieces are imported). The second problem seems solvable
> within the current implementation, the first seems like it would need
> arbitrary amount of time to fix and gains are marginal.

The way I see it is we can improve the compilation speed for everyone 
without having them change the code in any way, as opposed to toiling 
over phobos to the benefit of nothing else but phobos. Which is the 
better win?

Andrei



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