On 7/25/2012 10:50 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
On 7/25/12 1:24 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
On 7/25/2012 8:13 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
Yes, and both debug and release build times are important.
Optimized build time comparisons are less relevant - are you really
willing to trade off faster optimization times for less optimization?
I think it's more the time of the edit-compile-debug loop, which would
be the unoptimized build times.
There are systems that only work in release mode (e.g. performance is part of
the acceptability criteria) and for which debugging means watching logs.
So the problem is not faster optimization times for less optimization (though
that's possible, too), but instead build times for a given level of
optimization.
The easy way to improve optimized build times is to do less optimization.
I'm saying be careful what you ask for - you might get it!
