Study: build times for D programs

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 7/25/12 4:53 PM, Rainer Schuetze wrote:
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> On 25.07.2012 19:24, 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.
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> The "edit-compile-debug loop" is a use case where the D module system
> does not shine so well. Compare build times when only editing a single
> source file:
> With the help of incremental linking, building a large C++ project only
> takes seconds.
> In contrast, the D project usually recompiles everything from scratch
> with every little change.

The same dependency management techniques can be applied to large D 
projects, as to large C++ projects. (And of course there are a few new 
ones.) What am I missing?

Andrei