Compilation Time

[Steven Schveighoffer via Digitalmars-d]

On Tue, 10 Jun 2014 14:19:02 -0400, Justin Whear  
<justin at economicmodeling.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 10 Jun 2014 18:12:36 +0000, Mattcoder wrote:
>
>> Finally my question is: Wouldn't be relevant and a good advertisement
>> try to port a code like this to D and compare the times? Because one of
>> the strenghts of D it's the fast compilation time, right?
>
> I think porting 300k lines of 15+ year-old, heavily-templated C++ would
> have to be a labor of love.  You certainly couldn't pay me to do it.
>

Heavily Templated? Yeah, and you may get to the end and find out you don't  
have enough RAM to compile it in D...

-Steve