Honey, I shrunk the build times

[Jacob Carlborg via Digitalmars-d]

On 2015-06-07 06:30, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:

> Thanks for asking. The situation before went like this: to build
> libphobos2.a, the command would go like this (simplified to just a few
> files and flags:
>
> dmd -oflibphobos2.a std/datetime.d std/conv.d std/algorithm/comparison.d
> std/algorithm/iteration.d
>
> So all modules would go together in one command to build the library.
> With the package-at-a-time approach, we build one directory at a time
> like this:

I'm wondering if the impovements would have been larger if Phobos had a 
more tree structure for the modules rather than a fairly flat structure.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg