On 3 June 2015 at 13:35, weaselcat via Digitalmars-d < digitalmars-d@puremagic.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday, 3 June 2015 at 11:25:50 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote: > >> On Wednesday, 3 June 2015 at 11:06:39 UTC, weaselcat wrote: >> >>> it can get even better if you properly modularize your projects instead >>> of having 1-2 files that build slow, which causes a lot of waiting. >>> >> >> Yes, sure. You can probably get the same build speeds as with C if you >> organize your code in a particular way or shy away from certain patterns. >> >> What I was talking about was the language, meaning that you don't write >> your code to give a boost in compilation speed. Clearly possible, but if >> you use third party frameworks… then you're out of luck. >> >> An analogy: SQL isn't particularly expressive, but the limitations of the >> language makes it possible to execute it bottom-up. NOSQL engines are even >> less expressive, but can be even more easily distributed. >> > > ah yes, those famous fast C build times. > Excuse me while I go take half an hour to build GDB. > You're probably doing it wrong and accidentally building all of binutils instead. Use 'make all-gdb' and enjoy faster builds :-p