Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> > I still find it scary that people have written C programs that take 
> > longer than 0.003 seconds to compile. How huge would they have to be?

> Last one I worked on took about 45 minutes to compile, and it included tons 
> of already-compiled stuff for which we didn't have the source.

  It depends on the compiler too. For example gcc is notoriously *slow*
to compile big projects (but at least it's a top-tier on the quality of
the result).

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                                                          - Warp

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