On Thursday, 26 September 2013 at 23:47:34 UTC, Jonathan M Davis
wrote:
On Thursday, September 26, 2013 23:29:56 John Colvin wrote:
On Thursday, 26 September 2013 at 14:02:53 UTC,
ProgrammingGhost
wrote:
> I assume D can do incremental builds? How fast is the compile
> time compared to C++? Is it slower? C++ only has to read its
> header files and D would need to look at the entire project
> source code (or obj files?).
dmd compile times are very fast compared to c++ compilers.
Fast enough that you'd have to have a very large project for
incremental
builds to gain you anything. Maybe you could gain time if the
incremental
builds were done in parallel, but even then, the build time is
going to be
dwarfed by the link time in a lot of programs. Most projects
aren't going to
be big enough to really gain much from incremental builds. I'd
only worry
about that if I were doing a large application and building it
was
demonstratively slow.
- Jonathan M Davis
Unless you are doing optimised builds, which are still painfully
slow.
