https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14680
Issue ID: 14680
Summary: Investigate the use of .di files for Phobos
Product: D
Version: D2
Hardware: x86
OS: Mac OS X
Status: NEW
Severity: enhancement
Priority: P1
Component: phobos
Assignee: nob...@puremagic.com
Reporter: and...@erdani.com
Using .di files has been attempted last time many years ago for Phobos and
showed no improvements in compile times. Back then Phobos was much smaller and
.di generation much less reliable than today.
We should investigate now whether distributing Phobos importables as .di files
instead of .d files would be beneficial. Now we have pragma(inline) which
allows us to place in the .di files the functions we want to always inline, or
to make available for CTFE.
Among the advantages of .di files - they'd be devoid of unittests and comments,
which tend to be massive in Phobos,
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