Modern C++ Lamentations

[Manu]

On Sat, Dec 29, 2018 at 8:00 AM Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d
<digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> wrote:
>
> On Saturday, 29 December 2018 at 15:34:19 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> > Yeah no kidding, recently I rewrote a whole bunch of code to
> > get *rid* of dependency on std.regex because it was too slow,
> > and project compilation time improved from about 7+ seconds
>
> Ditto. (Basically). Rewriting the uri parser in cgi.d brought its
> build time from about 3 seconds down to 0.6. Which still feels
> slow, especially next to my minigui.d, which can do 0.3 since it
> broke off from Phobos entirely! (It was 2.5 seconds before).

I ran into this the other day:
https://github.com/dlang/druntime/pull/2398#issuecomment-445690050

That is `max`, can you imagine a theoretically simpler function?
Phobos is chaos!