On Wed, Nov 7, 2018 at 10:30 PM Joakim via Digitalmars-d-announce <digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com> wrote: > > On Thursday, 8 November 2018 at 04:16:44 UTC, Manu wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 6, 2018 at 10:05 AM Vladimir Panteleev via > > Digitalmars-d-announce <digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com> > > wrote: > >> [...] > > > > "Indeed, a clean build of DMD itself (about 170’000 lines of D > > and 120’000 lines of C/C++) takes no longer than 4 seconds to > > build on a rather average developer machine." > > > > ...what!? DMD takes me... (compiling) ... 1 minute 40 seconds > > to build! And because DMD does all-files-at-once compilation, > > rather than separate compilation for each source file, whenever > > you change just one line in one file, you incur that entire > > build time, every time, because it can't just rebuild the one > > source file that changed. You also can't do multi-processor > > builds with all-in-one build strategies. > > > > 4 seconds? That's just untrue. D is actually kinda slow these > > days... In my experience it's slower than modern C++ compilers > > by quite a lot. > > It sounds like you're not using "a rather average developer > machine" then, as there's no way DMD should be that slow to build > on a core i5 or better: > > https://forum.dlang.org/post/rqukhkpxcvgiefrdc...@forum.dlang.org
I'm on an i7 with 8 threads and plenty of ram... although threads are useless, since DMD only uses one ;)