Speed up compilation

[Alex]

On Monday, 22 April 2019 at 22:49:56 UTC, Andre Pany wrote:
> On Monday, 22 April 2019 at 19:41:03 UTC, Alex wrote:
>> Is there any way to speed of compiling a project(in Visual D) 
>> that changes very little but has a lot of dependencies that do 
>> not change?
>>
>> Seems like D is recompiling everything, and while it does it 
>> relatively fast, it's about 15+ seconds even if I just change 
>> a single character in the entire project such as a initial 
>> value(anything).
>>
>> Is compiling to object files going to help(Visual D does not 
>> do this as far as I know)?
>>
>> Ideally everything that doesn't change would not be recompiled.
>
> This seems rather strange. Do you maybe set the dub flag 
> --force or -f which will cause a full rebuild? Or do you have a 
> rather old dub version?
>
> I just guessing as I do not have experience with Visual D. I 
> know for direct dub usage or usage of Intellij, the 
> dependencies are built once, unless there is a need for rebuild.
>
> Kind regards
> Andre

Visual D doesn't use dub. There is a multiple objects file option 
but for some reason it causes the project to fail with unresolved 
externals from TypeInfo.* so I have no idea if it actually does 
anything or not.