Study: build times for D programs

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 7/25/12 1:24 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 7/25/2012 8:13 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> Yes, and both debug and release build times are important.
>
> Optimized build time comparisons are less relevant - are you really
> willing to trade off faster optimization times for less optimization?
>
> I think it's more the time of the edit-compile-debug loop, which would
> be the unoptimized build times.

There are systems that only work in release mode (e.g. performance is 
part of the acceptability criteria) and for which debugging means 
watching logs.

So the problem is not faster optimization times for less optimization 
(though that's possible, too), but instead build times for a given level 
of optimization.


Andrei