Our template emission strategy is broken

[Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d]

On 11/11/15 9:15 AM, Johannes Pfau wrote:
> Am Wed, 11 Nov 2015 13:56:50 +0000
> schrieb Martin Nowak <code at dawg.eu>:
>
>> On Wednesday, 11 November 2015 at 13:47:27 UTC, Johannes Pfau
>> wrote:
>>> I think we should really fix these issues, working separate
>>> compilation is very important.
>>
>> No, it's not. Separate compilation is C++-ishly slow by design
>> (b/c all dependencies get imported over and over again, just like
>> headers).
>> We should endorse compiling small (rather independent) packages
>> to static/shared libraries.
>>
>
> And where do you draw the line? Do we expect ARM users to have 4GB of
> RAM to compile phobos? Is 512MB enough? 64 MB? Even huge C++ codebases
> such as GCC compile with 128MB memory.

Large codebases are best organized to have more packages, not larger 
packages.

Phobos takes about 600MB max to build.


Andrei