Scaling rdmd up: build package at a time

[Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d]

On 6/6/15 6:03 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 2015-06-05 18:15, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> This is a self-contained and really fun project:
>>
>> https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14654
>
> It looks like you want to support incremental compilation. Two questions:
>
> * Is that possible? I know there has been some problems with this in the
> past, i.e. not all symbols were outputted to all object files

Whatever the matters are, we will fix them.

> * Why rebuild a whole directory when it could only rebuild a single file?

Compiling several files at once is faster. The natural boundary is one 
package.


Andrei