Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2000 11:46:49 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: Compiling with DJGPP.... how can I speed it?
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On Sun, 19 Mar 2000, Kalum Somaratna aka Grendel wrote:

> So it follows that on a p-166 your 10000 line program would take about 10
> secs to compile. a long time indeed.

You are kidding, right?  Because 10 seconds is not even enough time to
reflect upon the bugs you might have left lurking in the code you're
compiling...

Large projects take tens of minutes, sometimes hours, to build.  Now
*that* is a long time indeed.  Whereas 10 seconds--well, it's just a
blink ;-).