On Friday, 3 April 2015 at 17:22:42 UTC, Atila Neves wrote:
On Friday, 3 April 2015 at 17:10:33 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
On Friday, 3 April 2015 at 17:03:35 UTC, Atila Neves wrote:
. Separate compilation. One file changes, only one file gets
rebuilt
This immediately has caught my eye as huge "no" in the
description. We must ban C style separate compilation, there
is simply no way to move forward otherwise. At the very least
not endorse it in any way.
I understand that. But:
1. One of D's advantages is fast compilation. I don't think
that means we should should compile everything all the time
because we can (it's fast anyway!)
2. There are measureable differences in compile-time. While
working on reggae I got much faster edit-compile-unittest
cycles because of separate compilation
3. This is valuable feedback. I was wondering what everybody
else would think. It could be configureable, your "not endorse
it in any way" notwithstanding. I for one would rather have it
compile separately
4. CTFE and memory consumption can go through the roof
(anecdotally anyway, it's never been a problem for me) when
compiling everything at once.
See
http://forum.dlang.org/post/[email protected]
tl; dr: separate compilation support is necessary, but not at
single module level.
