Of Bounties and Mercenaries

[Toon Moene]

Stelios Xanthakis wrote:

> Compiler speed *should not* be an issue. If gcc 3.5 is ten times
> slower compiling programs at -O2, that's a good thing: it means
> that it does more to procude better code. A program is compiled
> once but executed 100000 times.

Unfortunately, that depends on your niche.  In meteorology, a program is 
compiled and then used for a year before recompiling (unless an urgent 
problems rises).  That's (in our case) 365 * 8 ~ 3000 runs against 1 
compile.

However, there are developers who do almost nothing but compiling 
(versions) of their code and hardly ever run it (to the end).

Hope this helps,

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