Update on the D-to-Jai guy: We have real problems with the language

[Guillaume Lathoud]

On Sunday, 27 November 2022 at 09:29:29 UTC, FeepingCreature 
wrote:
> ...
> - To be fair, his computer isn't the fastest. But it's an 8core 
> AMD, so DMD's lack of internal parallelization hurts it here. 
> This will only get worse in the future.

Hello, I'm far from being a D compilation specialist, but in case 
this is of any use or inspiration: I've been using parallel 
compilation for a few years now, recompiling only the new files, 
one-by-one, distributed over the available cores, then linking.

Here it is, just one bash script: 
https://github.com/glathoud/d_glat/blob/master/dpaco.sh   (So far 
used with LDC only.)

The result is far from perfect, sometimes the resulting binary 
does not reflect a code change, but 80-90% of the time it does. 
And I don't have to maintain a build system at all. Overall this 
approach saves quite a bit of time - and improves motivation, 
having to wait only a few seconds on a project that has grown to 
about 180 D files. My use of templating is limited but happens 
regularly.

If there is, or would be a 100% reliable solution to do parallel 
compilation without a build system, that'd be wonderful. Not just 
for me, I guess.

Best regards,
Guillaume