D compiles fast, right? Right??

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 3/30/18 12:12 PM, Atila Neves wrote:
> Fast code fast, they said. It'll be fun, they said. Here's a D file:
> 
>      import std.path;
> 
> 
> Yep, that's all there is to it. Let's compile it on my laptop:
> 
>      /tmp % time dmd -c  foo.d
>      dmd -c foo.d  0.12s user 0.02s system 98% cpu 0.139 total

Could be faster.

> That... doesn't seem too fast to me. But wait, there's more:
> 
>      /tmp % time dmd -c -unittest foo.d
>      dmd -c -unittest foo.d  0.46s user 0.06s system 99% cpu 0.525 total

Not fast. We need to make -unittest only affect the built module. Even 
though it breaks certain uses of __traits(getUnittests). No two ways 
about it. Who can work on that?

Andrei