Our template emission strategy is broken

[Atila Neves via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 11 November 2015 at 13:56:51 UTC, Martin Nowak 
wrote:
> On Wednesday, 11 November 2015 at 13:47:27 UTC, Johannes Pfau 
> wrote:
>> I think we should really fix these issues, working separate 
>> compilation is very important.
>
> No, it's not. Separate compilation is C++-ishly slow by design 
> (b/c all dependencies get imported over and over again, just 
> like headers).
> We should endorse compiling small (rather independent) packages 
> to static/shared libraries.

But compiling by package isn't slow by design. Also, it depends 
on the modules you're compiling. If, like me, you have all your 
unit tests in separate files from the implementation, it's faster 
when only changing the test to recompile that one file and relink 
than compiling the whole program again.

So... it depends.

Atila