D needs to publicize its speed of compilation

H. S. Teoh hsteoh at quickfur.ath.cx
Thu Dec 28 15:54:03 UTC 2017


On Thu, Dec 28, 2017 at 01:22:13PM +0000, Atila Neves via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On Thursday, 28 December 2017 at 07:21:28 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> > On 12/27/2017 1:23 PM, Atila Neves wrote:
> > > However, my experience has been that D has fast builds from
> > > scratch, but is really really slow for incremental builds.
> > You can do fast incremental builds with D by not putting all the
> > files on the command line. Just put one.
> 
> I don't build the compiler command-line myself, nor do I want to. Even
> then, recompiling one file isn't useful to me, what is is to recompile
> what's needed and run the tests.
[...]

Isn't that what a build system is for?


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