On 2015-02-03 22:02, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d wrote:
Second generation build algorithms are centered around *not* scanning, but taking advantage of modern OSes providing APIs for file change notification. Rather than scan the whole source tree every time, it takes the changeset as input -- either from the OS, or from some other source of information. By leveraging OS features, we can obtain this info on an as-needed basis instead of an O(n) scan.
Does this require some kind of daemon running in the background? -- /Jacob Carlborg
