[dmd-internals] What is the necessary to increase speed of merging?

[Don Clugston]

On 11 November 2011 19:42, Andrei Alexandrescu <andrei at erdani.com> wrote:
> On 11/11/11 12:22 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
>>
>> It usually takes a couple hours to merge a patch, if things go
>> smoothly. Most of that is running the test suite.
>
> That suggests a simple investment of money in bigger iron could have a
> large positive impact on the development pace. This is NOT the time to
> be stingy, as being penny wise now means we're negatively impacting D's
> future - perhaps irreversibly. Walter, I'm ready to pay 50% of whatever
> machine you want to buy. Please contact me for details.

I also think patches like
https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/pull/437
which address bottlenecks in compilation speed, are also very helpful.
If we compilation speed improves, it benefits everybody.