Re: D is supposed to compile fast.

2018-11-26 Thread Stefan Koch via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Friday, 23 November 2018 at 08:57:57 UTC, Chris Katko wrote: Any time I see people mention the benefits of D, I see "compile times" "compile times" "compile times" over and over. I'm using very modest amounts of templates, for a fairly small sized program (very early work toward a game), an

Re: D is supposed to compile fast.

2018-11-26 Thread welkam via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Sunday, 25 November 2018 at 22:00:21 UTC, Chris Katko wrote:. So 1) I have to compile manually, then link. Except that also runs the files every time even if they're up-to-date. Is that normal behavior for C/C++? Well you dont have to use separate commands but yes compiling and linking a

Re: D is supposed to compile fast.

2018-11-26 Thread aliak via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Monday, 26 November 2018 at 03:09:03 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: I mean, can you think of any module in the Python/Javascript/C# standard library that simply including it will swell your program to the point it can't compile? I'm not an omnipotent master programmer, but as a professional, I can

Re: D is supposed to compile fast.

2018-11-25 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Sunday, 25 November 2018 at 22:00:21 UTC, Chris Katko wrote: So 1) I have to compile manually, then link. Except that also runs the files every time even if they're up-to-date. Is that normal behavior for C/C++? Yes, C and C++ compilers behave the same way. #1 How to I only build file

Re: D is supposed to compile fast.

2018-11-25 Thread Tony via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Sunday, 25 November 2018 at 22:00:21 UTC, Chris Katko wrote: On Saturday, 24 November 2018 at 20:44:57 UTC, welkam wrote: On Friday, 23 November 2018 at 08:57:57 UTC, Chris Katko wrote: D is supposed to compile fast. You didnt read the fine print. It compiles simple code fast. Also compil

Re: D is supposed to compile fast.

2018-11-25 Thread Chris Katko via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Saturday, 24 November 2018 at 20:44:57 UTC, welkam wrote: On Friday, 23 November 2018 at 08:57:57 UTC, Chris Katko wrote: D is supposed to compile fast. You didnt read the fine print. It compiles simple code fast. Also compilation is separate step from linking and your program might spend

Re: D is supposed to compile fast.

2018-11-24 Thread welkam via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Friday, 23 November 2018 at 08:57:57 UTC, Chris Katko wrote: D is supposed to compile fast. You didnt read the fine print. It compiles simple code fast. Also compilation is separate step from linking and your program might spend half of "compilation" time in link phase.

Re: D is supposed to compile fast.

2018-11-24 Thread H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Sat, Nov 24, 2018 at 09:20:08AM +, Chris Katko via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote: > On Friday, 23 November 2018 at 10:00:17 UTC, Nicholas Wilson wrote: > > > > If you pass all the files on the command line then they all get > > (re)compiled. > > How are you supposed include files if not passi

Re: D is supposed to compile fast.

2018-11-24 Thread Chris Katko via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Friday, 23 November 2018 at 10:00:17 UTC, Nicholas Wilson wrote: If you pass all the files on the command line then they all get (re)compiled. How are you supposed include files if not passing them to the compiler? I'm only using std.regex in one file, IIRC, so whatever the "proper" wa

Re: D is supposed to compile fast.

2018-11-23 Thread Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Friday, November 23, 2018 11:13:24 AM MST H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d- learn wrote: > All in all, though, the fact that we're complaining about extra seconds > in compilation times still does show just how fast D compilation can be. > In the old days, compiling large C++ codebases usually means

Re: D is supposed to compile fast.

2018-11-23 Thread H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Fri, Nov 23, 2018 at 05:37:46PM +, Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote: > On Friday, 23 November 2018 at 17:21:46 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote: > > Are you using template-heavy Phobos functions? > > Merely importing a Phobos module is liable to cost you a quarter > second or more of compi

Re: D is supposed to compile fast.

2018-11-23 Thread Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Friday, 23 November 2018 at 17:21:46 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote: Are you using template-heavy Phobos functions? Merely importing a Phobos module is liable to cost you a quarter second or more of compile time. I just got my gui lib (22,000 lines of raw source, dscanner -sloc reports 12,000) co

Re: D is supposed to compile fast.

2018-11-23 Thread H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Fri, Nov 23, 2018 at 08:57:57AM +, Chris Katko via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote: > Any time I see people mention the benefits of D, I see "compile times" > "compile times" "compile times" over and over. D is extremely fast at compilation ... of C-like code. :-D Anything involving heavy use o

Re: D is supposed to compile fast.

2018-11-23 Thread Stefan Koch via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Friday, 23 November 2018 at 08:57:57 UTC, Chris Katko wrote: Any time I see people mention the benefits of D, I see "compile times" "compile times" "compile times" over and over. [...] If you can share the code privately I can use my custom profiling build of dmd to analyze the problem. j

Re: D is supposed to compile fast.

2018-11-23 Thread Daniel Kozak via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Fri, Nov 23, 2018 at 10:00 AM Chris Katko via Digitalmars-d-learn < digitalmars-d-learn@puremagic.com> wrote: > Any time I see people mention the benefits of D, I see "compile > times" "compile times" "compile times" over and over. > > I'm using very modest amounts of templates, for a fairly sm

Re: D is supposed to compile fast.

2018-11-23 Thread Nicholas Wilson via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Friday, 23 November 2018 at 08:57:57 UTC, Chris Katko wrote: Any time I see people mention the benefits of D, I see "compile times" "compile times" "compile times" over and over. I'm using very modest amounts of templates, for a fairly small sized program (very early work toward a game), an