Well, in most the big C++ projects I was involved in the
past, a full clean build would take at least an hour.
Am 12.05.2012 00:34, schrieb SomeDude:
On Friday, 11 May 2012 at 21:46:55 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
"Steven Schveighoffer" <schvei...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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On Fri, 11 May 2012 13:47:05 -0400, Alex Rønne Petersen
<xtzgzo...@gmail.com> wrote:
Complicated language structure? Long compilation times?
I can attest that on certain types of projects (i.e. template heavy),
D's lightning fast compilation time goes out the window. It has
improved greatly, but there are still some improvements that can be
made.
For instance, dcollections, which is about 10kloc takes 17 seconds to
compile all the unit tests. It used to be well over a minute, till
walter changed a linear lookup to a hash lookup on the symbol table.
There's an outstanding issue which is similar still in bugzilla:
Meh, that's still nothing compared to C++. The sample games included with
Marmalade and the Marm-based IwGame engine take *serveral* minutes to
compile - and those are just sample programs!
Template-heavy projects don't throw D's lightning fast compilation
times out
the window, it just makes them less lightning-like. It's still an
order of
magnature faster than equivalent, or even merely similar, C++.
I remember g++ taking dozens of minutes on a SINGLE compilation unit on
FreeFEM++, a very heavily templated project. Large C++ projects with
lots of templates can take several hours to compile. So one has to be
very careful with libraries like Boost on large projects, compilation
times can explode.
