Fast code vs. fast compile

>[Depends on what you're doing. If you're busy debugging and recompiling a
>program, with the output of any particular compiler run only used once or
>twice, you're generally much more interested in fast compilation than fast
>code. -John]


Ug! I just spilled my caffeine free Pepsi all over my desk after
reading that.


As a compiler user, I am (almost) always more concerned about fast
code rather than fast compilation. My makefiles generally build code
with max optimization and I can remember only about a dozen times in
my LIFE that I got myself so confused that I needed to do so many
recompiles that I changed the makefile to make the compile go faster.


Please tell me that I am not the only one.


Dennis
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dennis@netcom.com (Dennis Yelle)
[Perhaps you don't work on very large programs. A few years back when I
was recompiling a 600,000 line C program on three platforms every night,
I would have been extremely pleased to have a faster compiler available
than GCC. -John]
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