On Wednesday, 22 June 2016 at 14:11:12 UTC, Jack Stouffer wrote:
On Wednesday, 22 June 2016 at 13:46:50 UTC, qznc wrote:
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Including scripting languages in that example is unfair as they
only lex the file.
Right away you can tell that "Hello World" is a poor example of
fast compile times because GCC is near the top; (as you
probably know) large Cpp projects can have half hour to an hour
long build times. Large projects are way faster to compile
using dmd.
From a marketing standpoint, you want simple things to compile
fast. Ain't nobody gonna create big applications in multiple
languages to see which one compiles faster. They will most likely
go a little bit further than hello world, if they know what they
are doing. Testing things that shows lexing speed, linking speed,
etc, but they aren't gonna do complicated stuff.
