dmdz

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 03/17/2010 10:30 PM, BCS wrote:
> Hello Andrei,
>
>> The idea is to not extract the files every time you build. If they are
>> in place already, the tool should recognize that.
>
> The difference in speed between disk IO and CPU /might/ be high enough
> that (unless the uncompressed file is cached or you round trip it back
> to the disk) reading from the zip may be faster. I know that on linux
> there is a way to pass a stream as a file name (I forget what happens
> under the hood, but bash uses the ">(cmd)" syntax to do it) so you could
> work with that.

That works on zsh, I'm not sure whether it works with other shells. 
Also, dmd refuses to compile such streams because they don't end in .d. 
The file must be written to the file system, so caching would always help.

Andrei