Is there any way to speed of compiling a project(in Visual D) that changes very little but has a lot of dependencies that do not change?

Seems like D is recompiling everything, and while it does it relatively fast, it's about 15+ seconds even if I just change a single character in the entire project such as a initial value(anything).

Is compiling to object files going to help(Visual D does not do this as far as I know)?

Ideally everything that doesn't change would not be recompiled.

On Monday, 22 April 2019 at 19:41:03 UTC, Alex wrote:
> Is there any way to speed of compiling a project(in Visual D) that changes very little but has a lot of dependencies that do not change?
>
> Seems like D is recompiling everything, and while it does it relatively fast, it's about 15+ seconds even if I just change a single character in the entire project such as a initial value(anything).
>
> Is compiling to object files going to help(Visual D does not do this as far as I know)?
>
> Ideally everything that doesn't change would not be recompiled.

This seems rather strange. Do you maybe set the dub flag --force or -f which will cause a full rebuild? Or do you have a rather old dub version?

I just guessing as I do not have experience with Visual D. I know for direct dub usage or usage of Intellij, the dependencies are built once, unless there is a need for rebuild.

Kind regards
Andre

On Monday, 22 April 2019 at 22:49:56 UTC, Andre Pany wrote:
> On Monday, 22 April 2019 at 19:41:03 UTC, Alex wrote:
>> Is there any way to speed of compiling a project(in Visual D) that changes very little but has a lot of dependencies that do not change?
>>
>> Seems like D is recompiling everything, and while it does it relatively fast, it's about 15+ seconds even if I just change a single character in the entire project such as a initial value(anything).
>>
>> Is compiling to object files going to help(Visual D does not do this as far as I know)?
>>
>> Ideally everything that doesn't change would not be recompiled.
>
> This seems rather strange. Do you maybe set the dub flag --force or -f which will cause a full rebuild? Or do you have a rather old dub version?
>
> I just guessing as I do not have experience with Visual D. I know for direct dub usage or usage of Intellij, the dependencies are built once, unless there is a need for rebuild.
>
> Kind regards
> Andre

Visual D doesn't use dub. There is a multiple objects file option but for some reason it causes the project to fail with unresolved externals from TypeInfo.* so I have no idea if it actually does anything or not.