On Thu, Nov 8, 2018 at 12:10 AM Joakim via Digitalmars-d-announce <digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com> wrote: > > On Thursday, 8 November 2018 at 07:54:56 UTC, Manu wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 7, 2018 at 10:30 PM Vladimir Panteleev via > > Digitalmars-d-announce <digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com> > > wrote: > >> > >> On Thursday, 8 November 2018 at 06:08:20 UTC, Vladimir > >> Panteleev wrote: > >> > It was definitely about 4 seconds not too long ago, a few > >> > years at most. > >> > >> No, it's still 4 seconds. > >> > >> digger --offline --config-file=/dev/null -j auto -c > >> local.cache=none build 7.31s user 1.51s system 203% cpu > >> 4.340 total > >> > >> > It does seem to take more time now; I wonder why. > >> > >> If it takes longer, then it's probably because it's being > >> built in one CPU core, or in the release build. > > > > https://youtu.be/msWuRlD3zy0 > > Lol, I saw that link and figured it was either some comedy video, > like the Python ones Walter sometimes posts, or you were actually > showing us how long it takes. Pretty funny to see the latter.
It's not so funny when every one-line tweak burns 2 minutes of my life away. > > DMD only builds with one core, since it builds altogether. > > Yes, but your build time is unusually long even with one core. > Are the D backend and frontend at least built in parallel to each > other? That doesn't matter, you can clearly see the backend built in less than 2 seconds. > It doesn't seem to be even doing that, though they're > separate invocations of DMD. I didn't configure the build infrastructure! > > And all builds are release builds... what good is a debug > > build? DMD > > is unbelievably slow in debug. If it wasn't already slow > > enough... if > > I try and build with a debug build, it takes closer to 5 > > minutes. > > > > I suspect one part of the problem is that DMD used to be built > > with a C compiler, and now it's built with DMD... it really > > should be built with LDC at least? > > Could be part of the problem on Windows, dunno. Well... ffs... people need to care about this! >_<