dub: JSON, SDL, YAML, TOML, what color should we paint it ?

[Richard (Rikki) Andrew Cattermole]

On 03/03/2023 12:40 AM, Atila Neves wrote:
> On Wednesday, 1 March 2023 at 18:13:35 UTC, Richard (Rikki) Andrew 
> Cattermole wrote:
>> I've been working on trying to get dub to build faster.
> 
> The simplest way is to get it to build per D package, in threads, and 
> track dependencies. Which reggae does already, but it'd be nice if 
> everyone else could benefit.
> 
> dub also takes quite a while to do mostly nothing, which reggae 
> sidesteps by only asking dub for info when it generates the build 
> instead of every time.

Its significantly faster once you turn off networking.

There needs to be a local cache of packages rather than asking the 
dub-registry for everything all the time.

>> Dyaml appears to be a big ol' pile of slow code to build.
>>
>> So far I've shaved off 2s from its build, down to 22s with dmd.
> 
> This would be considered fast at work. Much to my chagrin.

Oh no.