Peter Alexander wrote:
On 13/02/11 6:52 AM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
D compiles a few orders of magnitude faster than C++ does. Better
handling
of incremental building might be nice for really large projects, but it's
really not a big issue for D, not like it is for C++.
The only person I know that's worked on large D projects is Tomasz, and
he claimed that he was getting faster compile times in C++ due to being
able to do incremental builds.
"Walter might claim that DMD is fast, but it’s not exactly blazing when
you confront it with a few hundred thousand lines of code. With C/C++,
you’d split your source into .c and .h files, which mean that a
localized change of a .c file only requires the compilation of a single
unit. Take an incremental linker as well, and C++ compiles faster than
D. With D you often have the situation of having to recompile everything
upon the slightest change." (http://h3.gd/devlog/?p=22)
You can do the same in D using .di files.
