Suggestion: Build windows DMD with MSVC

bearophile bearophileHUGS at lycos.com
Fri May 31 19:02:48 PDT 2013


Manu:

> Building DMD with MSVC results in a compiler that runs MUCH 
> MUCH faster.
> In the interest of making DMD releases as fast as possible, 
> this should be
> standardised.

How much faster?
And how much time does it take to compile DMD itself? I compile 
DMD almost every day, so I am interested in keeping this time 
quite low.

(On Windows I use G++ v.4.8, isn't it good enough to compile DMD, 
instead of MSVC?)

Bye,
bearophile


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