Re: else ladders practice

On 02/12/2024 14:09, Tim Rentsch wrote:
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Bart <bc@freeuk.com> writes:
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On 30/11/2024 05:25, Tim Rentsch wrote:
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EVERYBODY cares about compilation speeds.  [...]

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No, they don't.  I accept that you care about compiler speed.
What most people care about is not speed but compilation times,
and as long as the times are small enough they don't worry about
it.
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Another difference may be relevant here.  Based on other comments
of yours I have the impression that you frequently invoke
compilations interactively.  A lot of people never do that (or do
it only very rarely).  In a project I am working on now I do
builds often, including full builds where every .c file is
recompiled.  But all the compilation times together are only a
small fraction of the total, because doing a build includes lots
of other steps, including running regression tests.  Even if the
total compilation time were zero the build process wouldn't be
appreciably shorter.

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But it might be appreciably longer if the compilers you used were
a lot slower!  Or needed to be invoked more.  [...]