Can compilation times not be sped up any further?

[H. S. Teoh]

On Sat, Oct 19, 2019 at 09:56:44PM +0000, Brett via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> I have a huge code base... it seems D likes to recompile everything
> every time from scratch. I realize there are ways to fix this but
> can't D go a step further?

Are you using dub?  If you are, you might want to consider using a
different build tool instead. One of the reasons I gave up dub long ago
was because of its compulsion to rebuild everything from scratch every
single time, which is unbearably slow. Now that I have my own build
system setup with SCons, I'm much happier.

Running dmd without dub is actually incredibly fast (compared to, say,
C++) that you generally only need separate compilation for packages.
Compiling all modules in a single package at once is generally fast
enough that there's no need to go to the per-file level of granularity.


T

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