POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Coding at Microsoft : Re: Coding at Microsoft Server Time
3 Sep 2024 17:16:21 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Coding at Microsoft  
From: Mike Raiford
Date: 28 Feb 2011 11:33:06
Message: <4d6bce42$1@news.povray.org>
On 2/28/2011 5:42 AM, Invisible wrote:

>> Oh, please.... The soft synth program I've been playing around with
>> takes about 10-15min to compile. Our flagship CAD and engineering app
>> where I work takes a good 30-45min to do a full build.
>
> How huge is it? o_O
>

Its big. I forget how big, exactly, but there's a lot of code for 
handling engineering, performing the CAD drawing, rendering the 
building, etc... Not to mention all of the UI glue, database handling, 
and other bits and pieces here and there.

> Well, you can script that from outside. (That is, you have a check-in
> tool that runs whatever tests you want, and then executes the actual RCS
> command to check stuff in.)

True. We tend to use the GUI front-end for our RCS software, though. ;)

-- 
~Mike


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