On Friday, 27 September 2013 at 10:01:13 UTC, John Colvin wrote:
On Friday, 27 September 2013 at 07:12:50 UTC, Peter Alexander
wrote:
On Thursday, 26 September 2013 at 23:47:34 UTC, Jonathan M
Davis wrote:
On Thursday, September 26, 2013 23:29:56 John Colvin wrote:
On Thursday, 26 September 2013 at 14:02:53 UTC,
ProgrammingGhost
wrote:
> I assume D can do incremental builds? How fast is the
> compile
> time compared to C++? Is it slower? C++ only has to read
> its
> header files and D would need to look at the entire project
> source code (or obj files?).
dmd compile times are very fast compared to c++ compilers.
Fast enough that you'd have to have a very large project for
incremental
builds to gain you anything. Maybe you could gain time if the
incremental
builds were done in parallel, but even then, the build time
is going to be
dwarfed by the link time in a lot of programs. Most projects
aren't going to
be big enough to really gain much from incremental builds.
I'd only worry
about that if I were doing a large application and building
it was
demonstratively slow.
- Jonathan M Davis
Unless you are doing optimised builds, which are still
painfully slow.
In my experience, they are still faster than I was used to in
c++
Any language with proper modules should be faster than C and C++.
