Date: Tue, 20 May 1997 17:06:15 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>
cc: green_background_chicken AT happillama DOT demon DOT co DOT uk, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Complaints about DJGPP
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On Mon, 19 May 1997, DJ Delorie wrote:

> > I also stand by the slow compile time and slow running time due to crap
> > optimization,
> 
> No portable compiler produces better code than a platform-specific and
> hand-optimized compiler.  Fact of life.

Frankly, I fail to understand how come people bother about compilation
speed these days.  Do you really build GCC or Quake ten times a day?  If
not, with machines we have today, a typical not-so-small C source (like
1000 lines) compiles in 4 seconds even on a i486.  With these speeds, the 
bottleneck is coding and debugging, not compilation.  It is true that 
Borland C compiles about twice as fast as GCC, but what's the big 
difference between 2 seconds and 4 seconds?  It is 100%, but it's only 2 
seconds more...

And if you work on a Pentium, you will hardly ever see compilations 
longer than 10 seconds, for *any* C source.