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Re: Faster compilation speed


On Tuesday, August 13, 2002, at 09:10 AM, Robert Dewar wrote:

My point is that a factor of ten is relative.

If you have a million lines COBOL program and it takes 10 hours to compile,
then cutting it down to 1 hour is a real win. If it takes 10 minutes to
compile, then cutting it down to 1 minute is a much smaller win in practice.
For some of the things Apple does, a 10-hour build time would be
a major improvement.  I don't think we're alone in that.  Machines
are faster than they once were, but projects are now much larger.

			--Matt


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