Purity, memoization and parallelization of dmd

Tue Jul 21 15:42:37 UTC 2020

On Tuesday, 21 July 2020 at 15:22:44 UTC, Bruce Carneal wrote:
> On Tuesday, 21 July 2020 at 11:37:16 UTC, Atila Neves wrote:
>> On Monday, 20 July 2020 at 12:58:39 UTC, Petar Kirov 
>> [ZombineDev] wrote:
>>
>>> [...]
>>
>> That is my dream for D. If the compiler *is* the build system, 
>> then sure, parallelise the compiler. Currently, I don't see 
>> the point of even trying.
>
> Is it known how much parallelism is practically available now?  
> Would an SDC like architecture cleanly enable significantly 
> more?

It's a good question.
The answer is yes.

Not just in a performance sense but also in a maintainability 
sense.
Because then we can see dependency issues clearer.