• Alex (10/10) Apr 22 2019 Is there any way to speed of compiling a project(in Visual D)
• Andre Pany (9/19) Apr 22 2019 This seems rather strange. Do you maybe set the dub flag --force
• Alex (5/27) Apr 22 2019 Visual D doesn't use dub. There is a multiple objects file option

Alex <AJ gmail.com> writes:

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.

Andre Pany <andre s-e-a-p.de> writes:

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

Alex <AJ gmail.com> writes:

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.