Am Wed, 11 Nov 2015 14:31:53 +0000 schrieb Martin Nowak <[email protected]>:
> On Wednesday, 11 November 2015 at 14:15:54 UTC, Johannes Pfau > wrote: > > And where do you draw the line? Do we expect ARM users to have > > 4GB of RAM to compile phobos? Is 512MB enough? 64 MB? Even huge > > C++ codebases such as GCC compile with 128MB memory. > > OK let's clarify the terminology first. > > separate compilation: -c single_source.d > incremental compilation: -c source_a.d source_b.d (as well as -c > -ofsingle.o source_a.d source_b.d) > library compilation: -lib all_pkg_sources > > Separate compilation works fine (and predictable) but is slow > (due to reparsing), you do need to link all objects from all your > sources though. > Choosing this strategy makes sense to mitigate OOM issues. > OK, that makes sense. I thought there were some issues with separate compilation as well, but I'm not sure. Anyway, I meant working _separate_ compilation is important, incremental compilations is much less important for me. GDC doesn't even support multiobj style compilation. BTW: shouldn't incremental compilation with one single output object have exactly the same result as compiling into one static library? So I guess we already avoid most of these problems in gdc by simply not offering a multiobj mode ;-)
