On Friday, 27 September 2013 at 06:40:22 UTC, Jacob Carlborg
wrote:
On 2013-09-27 01:47, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
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.
I don't know how others think about incremental compilation.
But I'm don't think about compiling each file separately. I'm
thinking about compiling only what's changed and compile all
those files in one go.
That would mean the first time you compile a project it would
compile all files at once, just as most people do today. Then
when some files are changed it will only compile those, in one
go.
This should at least in theory speed up the compilation. But
perhaps most projects are too small to actually make a
difference in practice.
From my enterprise seat, I tend to favor compilation against
binary modules.
It is not as if you have always source code available and D has
modules, so I expect eventually to make use of binary modules
like in most languages that have module support.
--
Paulo
