Reggae v0.0.5 super alpha: A build system in D

[Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On 4/3/15 12:07 PM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 2015-04-03 20:06, Atila Neves wrote:
>
>> Interesting.
>>
>> It's true that it's not always faster to compile each module separately,
>> I already knew that. It seems to me, however, that when that's actually
>> the case, the practical difference is negligible. Even if 10x slower,
>> the linker will take longer anyway. Because it'll all still be under a
>> second. That's been my experience anyway. i.e. It's either faster or it
>> doesn't make much of a difference.
>
> I just tried compiling one of my project. It has a makefile that does
> separate compilation and a shell script I use for unit testing which
> compiles everything in one go. The makefile takes 5.3 seconds, does not
> including linking since it builds a library. The shell script takes 1.3
> seconds which include compiling unit tests and linking as well.

Truth be told that's 5.3 seconds for an entire build so the comparison 
is only partially relevant. -- Andrei