reduce compilation times?

[Tom St Denis]

J.C. Pizarro wrote:
> On 2007/11/28, Tom St Denis <tstdenis@ellipticsemi.com> wrote:
>   
>> As I said in my first post on the subject, there is no "hard set"
>> rule about when to refactor. If your class has 3 methods and
>> is 75 lines of code, it's probably better to have it all organized
>> in one unit/file. But if your class has 15 methods, and requires
>> 1500 lines of code, you're probably better off refactoring it.
>>     
>
> Well, and how is this GCC in reality?
>
> svn://gcc.gnu.org/svn/gcc/trunk
> $ svn info
> ...
> Revision: 130486
>   
While I won't defend the GCC process (mostly because I'm not part of it) 
I will say that quite  a few files are machine generated.  i386.c for 
instance is generated from i386.md isn't it?

Anyways, most OSS projects routinely violate most basic rules of proper 
software development.  About the only thing they get right is they at 
least use some form of revision and bug control.  Firefox is another 
beast.  OpenOffice is a much more annoying offender.

Tom