rdmd takes 2-3 seconds on a first-run of a simple .d script

[Andre Pany]

On Monday, 27 May 2019 at 07:16:37 UTC, BoQsc wrote:
> On Sunday, 26 May 2019 at 20:37:36 UTC, Jon Degenhardt wrote:
>> [...]
>
> The desktop computer I'm testing this on contains Solid State 
> Drive, a Windows 10 Home Operating system and about 7-9 years 
> old of hardware. But remember, we are living in a 21 century, 
> the hardware performance is great, even for the old hardware 
> that is 10 years old, especially the desktops.
>
> I tried to disable Windows Defender real-time protection, it 
> didn't helped to speed up rdmd. However until I test it on 
> Linux, I can't be sure if Windows do not have other less 
> obvious quirks that could slow down third party programs such 
> as D compiler or rdmd.

I can confirm, without measuring the exact timing, "dmd -run 
test.d" feels much
faster than "rdmd test.d". I would say 1 second instead of 2 
seconds.

Kind regards
André