On Wednesday, 11 November 2015 at 13:56:51 UTC, Martin Nowak
wrote:
On Wednesday, 11 November 2015 at 13:47:27 UTC, Johannes Pfau
wrote:
I think we should really fix these issues, working separate
compilation is very important.
No, it's not. Separate compilation is C++-ishly slow by design
(b/c all dependencies get imported over and over again, just
like headers).
We should endorse compiling small (rather independent) packages
to static/shared libraries.
But compiling by package isn't slow by design. Also, it depends
on the modules you're compiling. If, like me, you have all your
unit tests in separate files from the implementation, it's faster
when only changing the test to recompile that one file and relink
than compiling the whole program again.
So... it depends.
Atila
