Building is slow!

[Arek]

On Saturday, 2 December 2017 at 23:26:20 UTC, Ivan Trombley wrote:
> On Saturday, 2 December 2017 at 14:34:58 UTC, Arek wrote:
>> You can try `dub build --build-mode=single-file --parallel`. 
>> It will execute separate instance of compiler for each source 
>> file. If --parallel is given, dub will launch several 
>> instances of dmd in parallel.
>
> I get the error:
>   Error processing arguments: BuildMode does not have a member 
> named 'single-file'
>

Sorry, my mistake. `--build-mode=singleFile`

>
> On Saturday, 2 December 2017 at 22:54:56 UTC, Indigo wrote:
>> I haven't tried gtkd in a while but when I did it built in 
>> seconds... I was not using dub though but the build script 
>> that comes with it.
>
> My project has
>   "dependencies": {
>     "gtk-d": "3.7.2"
>   }
>
> To build release, it takes more than three minutes to build 
> gtk-d on Linux (Ryzen 7 1700 processor).

The only reason for really long builds I know, was a lack of 
memory and swapping.