On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 09:18:28AM +0000, Russel Winder wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-10-23 at 14:58 -0700, H. S. Teoh wrote:
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> > Well, dmd tends to work best when given the full list of D files, as opposed to the C/C++ custom of per-file compilation. (It's also faster that way---significantly so.) The -op flag is your friend when it comes to using dmd with multi-folder projects.
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> > And I just tried: gdc works with multiple files too. I'm not sure how well it handles a full list of D files, though, if some of those files may not necessarily be real dependencies.
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> So perhaps the D tooling for SCons should move more towards the Java approach than the C/C++/Fortran approach, i.e. a compilation step is a single one depending only on source files and generating a known set of outputs (which is easier than Java since it can generate an almost untold number of output files, Scala is even worse).
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That's not a bad idea. I also noticed that gdc tends to produce smaller executables when compiling in this way (I'm not sure why -- are identical template instances not getting merged when compiling separately?).


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On Tue, 2012-10-30 at 09:53 -0700, H. S. Teoh wrote:
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> That's not a bad idea. I also noticed that gdc tends to produce smaller executables when compiling in this way (I'm not sure why -- are identical template instances not getting merged when compiling separately?).

Is it fair to assume that DMD, LDC, and GDC all have the same behaviour in this respect?

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