Slow code, slow

[ketmar]

Martin Tschierschke wrote:

> On Tuesday, 27 February 2018 at 08:49:15 UTC, Stefan Koch wrote:
>> On Monday, 26 February 2018 at 21:38:09 UTC, ketmar wrote:
>>> H. S. Teoh wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Mon, Feb 26, 2018 at 10:12:25PM +0200, ketmar via Digitalmars-d 
>>>> wrote:
> [...]
>
> When looking at the problem of compilation times I think: Wouldn't it 
> speed up the development process, if spiting your code in modules would 
> automatically results in creating small libs which are - if possible - 
> compiled only once?
>
> The idea of using a caching mechanism, is an other general way not to 
> compile the same over and over again. Part of the discussion is here: 
> https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/7239#issuecomment-340256110

basically, compilation of a code without templates is FAST. 500+ KB of 
source almost without templates often compiles in less than a second (on 
not-so-bleeding-edge i3, not even i7).

but throw templates in a mix, and BOOM! coffee and cigarettes.