long compile time question

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Wednesday, October 24, 2012 21:35:22 Manfred Nowak wrote:
> Dan wrote:
> > The following takes nearly three minutes to compile.
> 
> ... and this returns immediately:
> 
> --------------------------------
> struct B {
> const size_t SIZE = 1024*64;
> int[SIZE] x= void; // !!!
> }
> 
> void main() {
> B[] barr;
> barr ~= B();
> }
> -------------------------------
> - manfred

That's incredibly dangerous though, because than B.init has garbage in it. 
Still, it's interesting that it would affect the speed. Maybe the compiler 
recognizes that it's garbage and so doesn't bother copying it (meaning that 
you'll get different garbage for every use of B.init).

- Jonathan M Davis