D slower than C++ in compile time

Ary Borenszweig ary at esperanto.org.ar
Sat Feb 16 03:06:09 PST 2008


Frank Benoit escribió:
> Gregor once explained why build tools need to call DMD once per file:
> http://www.digitalmars.com/webnews/newsgroups.php?art_group=digitalmars.D&article_id=57473 
> 
> 
> This makes dsss look like it is slow, but actually this is a concequence 
> of a DMD workaround.
> 
> For the DWT library this would lead to compile times >15 minutes!
> 
> In the past I found the compile times always a big argument for D. 
> Hopefully this point gets attention at digitalmars ;)

Descent will probably do incremental compiling in the next release. Does 
what Gregor say also affects it? If so, vote++ :)



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