On Wed, 25 Jul 2012 17:31:10 -0400 Andrei Alexandrescu <seewebsiteforem...@erdani.org> wrote:
> On 7/25/12 4:53 PM, Rainer Schuetze wrote: > > > > The "edit-compile-debug loop" is a use case where the D module > > system does not shine so well. Compare build times when only > > editing a single source file: > > With the help of incremental linking, building a large C++ project > > only takes seconds. > > In contrast, the D project usually recompiles everything from > > scratch with every little change. > > The same dependency management techniques can be applied to large D > projects, as to large C++ projects. (And of course there are a few > new ones.) What am I missing? > Aren't there still issues with what object files DMD chooses to store instantiated templates into? Or has that all been fixed? The xfbuild developers wrestled a lot with this and AIUI eventually gave up. The symptoms are that you'll eventually start getting linker errors related to template instantiations, which will be fixed when you then do a complete rebuild.
