Any takers for http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=9673?

Andrei Alexandrescu SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org
Sun Mar 10 10:04:32 PDT 2013


On 3/10/13 11:44 AM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
> On Sunday, 10 March 2013 at 15:38:42 UTC, deadalnix wrote:
>> It really depend on the coding style. If you do some C-like D,
>> everything is fine, but if you use complex feature of D, then
>> incremental compilation become clearly impossible (I spent a fair
>> amount of time on the problem).
>
> I think this is a serious problem. I hadn't thought of it before, but if
> we are designing our tools to work around implementation issues in the
> compiler, I think we're doing something wrong. Rather than meddling with
> a crippled incremental compilation model for rdmd that'll get obsoleted
> by a fixed compiler, how about attacking the problem directly?
>
> It doesn't help that the problems surrounding incremental compilation (I
> mean the general case with incrementally compiling a few modules at
> once, not deadalnix's bug) don't seem to be well-defined. Do we have a
> filed issue with a reproducible test case?

Agreed. We need a workable item here.

Andrei


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