On Tuesday, 24 July 2012 at 14:34:58 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
Hello,
I was talking to Walter on how to define a good study of D's
compilation speed. We figured that we clearly need a good
baseline, otherwise numbers have little meaning.
One idea would be to take a real, non-trivial application,
written in both D and another compiled language. We then can
measure build times for both applications, and also measure the
relative speeds of the generated executables.
Although it sounds daunting to write the same nontrivial
program twice, it turns out such an application does exist:
dmdscript, a Javascript engine written by Walter in both C++
and D. It has over 40KLOC so it's of a good size to play with.
What we need is a volunteer who dusts off the codebase (e.g.
the D source is in D1 and should be adjusted to compile with
D2), run careful measurements, and show the results. Is anyone
interested?
Thanks,
Andrei
You can try testing DMD (written in C++) against DDMD (written in
D). I don't think you can find more fair comparison (both
projects are in sync - though dated - and project size is fairly
large).
