[WORK] std.file.update function

Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Sun Sep 18 08:41:21 PDT 2016


On 9/18/16 11:24 AM, rikki cattermole wrote:
> On 19/09/2016 3:20 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> On 09/18/2016 11:17 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>> Simplest case is - source file is being changed, therefore a new object
>>> file is being produced, therefore a new executable is being produced.
>>
>> Forgot to mention a situation here: if you change the source code of a
>> module without influencing the object file (e.g. documentation, certain
>> style changes, unittests in non-unittest builds etc) there'd be no
>> linking upon rebuilding. -- Andrei
>
> How does this compare against doing a checksum comparison on the file?

Favorably :o). -- Andrei



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