On 2013-08-20 00:27, ProgrammingGhost wrote:
Is it possible that if I just try to compile 1 file it could imports enough libraries that import/need the definitions for additional large libraries which in turn also imports everything causing ram issues? I'm sure in practice this will almost never happen. But I don't doubt there are main libraries that use other large libraries and everything imports/uses everything
It's theoretically possible. But one big difference between D and C/C++, is that D uses symbolic inclusion where C/C++ uses textual inclusion. In C/C++ you end up with these enormous translation units due to this. This won't happen in D.
In C/C++ when you see "include <stdio.h>", for example, the preprocessor will basically copy-paste the content of stdio.h to where the include was located. In D the compiler just makes a note that a given file includes another, no content is copied.
-- /Jacob Carlborg
