From: charles AT pentek DOT com (Charles Krug)
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Subject: Re: Why?
Date: 19 Jul 2001 13:18:14 GMT
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On Wed, 18 Jul 2001 21:11:46 -0400, Sahab Yazdani <sahaby AT operamail DOT com> wrote:
> Anton Andreev wrote:
> >[sniped] - general area of discussion: Borland C compiles faster than GCC.
> 
> maybe, but the code that GCC produces is *soo* much faster than the one 
> Borland creates.  it is worth the extra time IMO.  and also GCC complies 
> with more of the C/C++ standards than Borland if i remember correctly.
> 

And compile time, though an inconvenience for us, is largely irrelevant.  Even
if I compile code twenty times a day (meaning successful builds, not "whoops,
I missed a semicolon"), I still spend much more time trying to figure out
what's going wrong at runtime than I do waiting for builds to complete.


Charles