On the performance of building D programs

[Paulo Pinto]

On Friday, 5 April 2013 at 00:51:38 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
> On Friday, 5 April 2013 at 00:39:49 UTC, bearophile wrote:
>> Vladimir Panteleev:
>>
>>> D code already compiles pretty quickly, but here's an 
>>> opportunity to nearly halve that time (for some cases) - by 
>>> moving some of rdmd's basic functionality into the compiler.
>>
>> Make the D compiler search for its modules was one of the 
>> first (unwritten) enhancement requests. That's the right 
>> default for a handy compiler (plus a compiler switch to 
>> disable that behavour). But for backwards compatibility I 
>> think that switch has to do the opposite, to enable the 
>> recursive search.
>
> Yes, I agree completely. D is the only programming language I 
> know that has both a module system, and the archaic C/C++ 
> compilation model. Even Pascal got this right!
>

Yep, units exist since UCSD Pascal.