D is supposed to compile fast.

[Daniel Kozak]

On Fri, Nov 23, 2018 at 10:00 AM Chris Katko via Digitalmars-d-learn <
digitalmars-d-learn at puremagic.com> wrote:

> Any time I see people mention the benefits of D, I see "compile
> times" "compile times" "compile times" over and over.
>
> I'm using very modest amounts of templates, for a fairly small
> sized program (very early work toward a game), and I'm hitting
> ~15 seconds compile time in LDC and ~7 seconds in DMD. And I'm
> not even compiling with optimizations!
>
> ldc2 -w -ofextra  extra.d molto.d helper.d editor.d common.d
> map.d object_t.d animation.d ini.d  -L-L. $@    -gc -d-debug=3
> -de -fdmd-trace-functions
>
> dmd -w -ofextra extra.d molto.d helper.d editor.d common.d map.d
> object_t.d animation.d ini.d -profile=gc  -profile  -g -debug
> -color -L-L.
>
> I keep putting stuff into new files, but it feels like it's
> compiling everything from scratch / not getting faster the way
> C++ does.
>
> And I'm not even bringing up the 800MB of RAM required because I
> dared to import std.regex. (On a laptop with 2 GB of RAM. RIP. If
> I dare to have tabs open, the compile time goes into the minutes
> thanks to swapping.)
>
>
AFAIK debug builds are slower? Can you share your files with us? So I can
try to find out what is the main problem
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