On Thursday, 17 July 2014 at 10:13:46 UTC, bearophile wrote:
Dean:
dmd compiles very quickly, but to compile writeln D has to
digest a good amount of Phobos code.
Are the reasons for this similar to why C++ STL is not an
object
code library ?
The reasons for the large amount of code compiled for a writeln
are that: writeln is more powerful, Phobos modules import each
other a lot. And several parts of Phobos are not compiled
because there are templates everywhere. Take a look at Phobos
sources and you will see.
Bye,
bearophile
Apologies, I wasnt clear. I was talking about the reason behind
compiling the code from source as opposed to linking precompiled
objects. I was speculating wether the reasons are similar to that
of STL, i.e. specializing to the type as late as possible.
