Linking is the slowest part of D's compilation process– can we use mold to speed it up?

Dukc ajieskola at gmail.com
Fri Feb 26 21:42:01 UTC 2021


On Friday, 26 February 2021 at 07:35:16 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>
> Incremental linking also tends to suffer from all kinds of 
> weird bugs. Enough so that one tends to give up and go full 
> linking anyway.

And for mega-sized codebases that could potentially benefit from 
incremental linking speed-wise, I'd think its better to use 
either the application user interfaces and/or BindBC-style 
dynamic linking as the top-level modularity mechanisms anyway. Am 
I correct?


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