On the performance of building D programs

[Vladimir Panteleev]

On Sunday, 7 April 2013 at 11:52:54 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
> I think there's another one related to a bug I recently fixed. 
> There needs to be a file touched after the executable has been 
> built when people use -of to place the executable in a specific 
> place.

Well, yes, that was when the witness file was added. My question 
was whether there was a reason for a separate file to be used, as 
opposed to using the .deps file. --makedepend would be the 
answer, as I see.