On 8/3/10, Andrei Alexandrescu <[email protected]> wrote: > BTW, speed of compilation of very short programs is not very relevant as > long as it's reasonably good.
I don't know. Large programs is certainly very important, but I think small ones are too. The reason is a very quick compile on small programs means you can compete directly with the interpreted languages for quick toys. Imagine being able to use rdmd --eval where you would use sed and grep, and see quick changes work just as easily. I'd love it. (rdmd's caching does a really good job for repeated uses, but when toying with sed, I often keep tweaking the line until it works. In that case, rdmd is just a wee bit too slow to recompile.)
