Compilation Time
Paulo Pinto via Digitalmars-d
digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Wed Jun 11 00:19:14 PDT 2014
On Tuesday, 10 June 2014 at 18:36:20 UTC, Burp wrote:
> I'm not sure how valid the comparison would be, even if
> someone did port it to D.
>
> That C++ project is very old, and was likely not organized to
> minimize compilation times, may not have used precompiled
> headers etc.
>
> It is possible to set up C++ projects such that even very
> large ones will compile(incrementally) in only a few
> seconds(depends on what you changed), although it is something
> of a pain in the ass and requires a fair amount of work on the
> developers part.
>
Even with all that work, a build can take hours when someone has
the wonderful idea of doing "make clean all".
Sadly modules are still work in progress.
"Switch to D now or wait until 2020!" :)
--
Paulo
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