Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> Plus, considering #include, the number of lines of source in the project is 
> not the number of lines you have to compile to compile the project. This 
> project had include files with tens of thousands of lines (hell, 4000-line 
> individual macros) that got included in pretty much every source file, as 
> well as all kinds of nested hierarchies of include files that included who 
> knows how much extraneous stuff by the time you were done. I've written 
> serious programs shorter than some of the compiler command lines in that 
> project.

  If you are going to deliberately make compilation times longer, then
you could just use template metaprogramming and have the compilation take
hours for a simple 50-line source file.

  Just because badly designed programs can take long to compile doesn't
mean it's necessarily so.

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                                                          - Warp

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