On Friday, 23 February 2018 at 20:52:47 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
On Fri, Feb 23, 2018 at 08:35:44PM +0000, Rubn via
Digitalmars-d wrote: [...]
It's not that big of a slow down. Using "fast" you don't
import any modules so they never have to be parsed. That's
pretty much all of phobos you don't have to parse in that
example. That's just the initial cost too. In a big project
this won't make a difference.
Wrong. This code was reduced from a bigger module (1600+ lines
of code) containing the offending function. If I write that
function with a straight loop, the entire module compiles in
about 0.4 seconds. If I change that function to use Phobos
algorithms, the compilation time slows down to more than 1
second.
I don't know what else you are doing, but if you aren't using
phobos or any of it's functions in there other than those few
lines of code. Then yah you'll get the same result.
You create a tiny example that is irrelevant to the larger
scale, that takes 0.3 seconds longer to compile. It's a
magnitude slower cause in your fast example it's literately
only parsing 5 lines of code instead of hundreds of lines like
it is in your slow example.
Please measure before you make statements like that. You're
assuming I wrote that example out of thin air, but it's
actually code reduced from a larger module where changing a
single function more than doubles the compilation time of the
*entire module*. Parsing is actually extremely fast, esp. with
the DMD front end. The slowdown is caused by the way the
compiler handles templates (and possibly the way Phobos uses
exponential templates in some places).
And this is only a smaller example of a single module. I do
have code across multiple modules that take horrendously long
to compile because of heavy template use.
T
I did measure it, adding another instigation of the templates
using a different type adds a fraction of the time. Not another
0.3 seconds.
