From: "Campbell, Rolf [SKY:1U32:EXCH]" <moscoop AT americasm01 DOT nt DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Compiling with DJGPP.... how can I speed it?
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 16:19:43 -0500
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Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> 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 ;-).

Some of use are spoiled though.  What I usually do is compile, get a list of x
compiliation errors, fix the first one, then compile again.  I have found that
in about 10% of cases, the initial error in the code confuses gcc so it 'make
up' some of the other errors.  This means that I sometimes compile code every
10 seconds.  In general, I believe my effort is more valuable than my CPU's,
so even if there is only a small chance that the errors will dissapear, I
still recompile.
    The point being, if my code doesn't compile in < 2 seconds, I look for
ways to speed it up.  I realize that, beyond some limit, there is nothing I
can do, and if most of the time is spent in the linker stage, there's not much
I can do, but 10 seconds is a long time for most of us.

--
(\/) Rolf Campbell (\/)