Of Bounties and Mercenaries

[Richard Kenner]

    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. 

No.  Producing better code means producing better code.  Compiling slower
means compiling slower.  One would *hope that the latter means the former,
but that has to be shown, not just implied.

    A program is compiled once but executed 100000 times. 

True, but that's often not relevant to developers, who care about how
quickly they can compile their applications.