Warp wrote:
>   If you are going to deliberately make compilation times longer, 

Nobody wanted the compilation times to be longer.

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

I know that. I was just pointing out that #include means some files get 
compiled many times, so a line count doesn't really tell you how many lines 
were compiled to make a complex system. You don't need to get defensive 
about the fact.

I remember reading where one customer had called up an Ada compiler 
manufacturer to complain their compiler was slow. The manufacturer asked to 
see the code and it was tremendously convoluted in terms of what library 
generics it instantiated and so on. The vendor asked why they were doing it 
this way, and the customer says "I modeled it on your sample XYZ." The 
vendor informs them that sample XYZ is a compiler stress-test designed to 
make the compiler run out of resources to ensure the compiler handles it right.

-- 
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
  "How did he die?"   "He got shot in the hand."
     "That was fatal?"
          "He was holding a live grenade at the time."

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