Slow code, slow

[Stefan Koch]

On Tuesday, 27 February 2018 at 09:25:57 UTC, Martin Tschierschke 
wrote:
> On Tuesday, 27 February 2018 at 08:49:15 UTC, Stefan Koch wrote:
>> On Monday, 26 February 2018 at 21:38:09 UTC, ketmar wrote:
>>> H. S. Teoh wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Mon, Feb 26, 2018 at 10:12:25PM +0200, ketmar via 
>>>> Digitalmars-d wrote:
> [...]
>
> When looking at the problem of compilation times I think: 
> Wouldn't it speed up the development process, if spiting your 
> code in modules would automatically results in creating small 
> libs which are - if possible - compiled only once?
>
> The idea of using a caching mechanism, is an other general way 
> not to compile the same over and over again. Part of the 
> discussion is here: 
> https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/7239#issuecomment-340256110

It's more complicate then that.
The problem with caching is dependency analysis which is pretty 
difficult with templates in the mix.