Two ideas for faster builds

[Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d]

On 6/11/15 10:18 PM, weaselcat wrote:
> On Friday, 12 June 2015 at 05:05:47 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> On 6/10/15 5:50 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>> https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14679
>>> https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14680
>>
>> I did some preliminary investigation, with promising results. I think
>> we should move forward with this.
>>
>> As a perk, we'll dogfood the .di generation which is clearly not
>> currently usable. That in turn is making separate compilation of
>> large-scale projects unnecessarily difficult.
>>
>>
>> Andrei
>
> Did you see any performance improvements?

Yes, refer to measurements in 
https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14680. At least casual 
scripting will be sensibly helped.

> I played around with .di files before but had trouble using them when
> building phobos.

Please add to the bug reports I've sent.


Andrei