On Thursday, 25 February 2016 at 02:48:24 UTC, Walter Bright
wrote:
On 2/24/2016 6:05 PM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
I've also heard from big users who want the performance more
than compile time
and hit difficulty in build scaling..
I know that performance trumps all for many users. But we can
have both - dmd and ldc/gdc.
My point is that compile speed is a valuable and distinguishing
feature of D. It's one that I have to constantly maintain, or
it bit rots away. It's one that people regularly dismiss as
unimportant. Sometimes it seems I'm the only one working on the
compiler who cares about it.
For comparison, C++ compiles like a pig, I've read that Rust
compiles like a pig, and Go makes a lot of hay for compiling
fast.
Maybe in the future, when ldc/gdc catches up versions with dmd,
we can combine them into a bundle for downloads? Then new people
can just download the compiler bundle and run dmd or ldc/gdc as
they like.
