On 08/19/2010 07:48 AM, Eldar Insafutdinov wrote:
I'll be doing a followup on why D compiles fast.
I will say the contrary. Compiling medium size projects doesn't matter in either
language. But when the size of your project starts getting very big you will
have
troubles in D because there is no incremental compilation.
I'm a bit confused - how do you define incremental compilation? The
build system can be easily set up to compile individual D files to
object files, and the use the linker in a traditional manner.
You will end up
recompiling the whole thing each time which will take longer than just
recompiling
a single file in C++. Please be sure to mention it in your next article,
otherwise
it is a false advertisement. Of course it is not the language issue, but it's
the
issue of its only implementation.
P.S. This problem was raised many times here by Tomasz Stachowiak.
I'm not sure about that. On the large C++ systems I work on, compilation
is absolute agony. I don't think that that sets the bar too high.
Andrei
