How do people feel about putting source compiler directives inside rdmd?

[mipri]

On Friday, 6 December 2019 at 06:14:38 UTC, mipri wrote:
> On Friday, 6 December 2019 at 05:50:38 UTC, Andre Pany wrote:
>> Here the fix which avoids the rebuild of Single file packages 
>> https://github.com/dlang/dub/pull/1811
>
> Nice work!
>
> running a script with a single dependency, average of 3 runs.
>
> currently:
>
> Time           : 4224 ms (1408.000 ms/per)
> Max RSS        : 313.6 MB
>
> and with your pull request:
>
> Time           : 398 ms (132.667 ms/per)
> Max RSS        : 29.0 MB

Although...

Time           : 24 ms (8.000 ms/per)
Max RSS        : 5.0 MB

This is the time I get from directly calling the binary that
dub leaves under /tmp

So that's still quite a lot of overhead.

>> Dub is a very good piece of software and issues can in most 
>> cases easily be fixed.
>>
>> Kind regards
>> Andre