Re: Python recompile

On 14/03/2025 18:00, Scott Lurndal wrote:

bart <bc@freeuk.com> writes:

While on 1980s PC-style machines, programs were typically not huge. I
used my own fast compilers and fast loaders (to combine object files
into one program).

 The last thing a Unix programmer would want is to use a 1980s PC,
then or now.

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 >>(I would love to know how long such a build process would have taken on a 1980s machine with floppy disks! Possibly a week.)
The context is a project like GMP and its 35,000 of script which is the first hurdle. The end result is an approx 0.5MB library, which is not that far off being a plausible piece of software for those 1980s PCs.
I'm guessing that it would have taken an unreasonably long time on such a machine. Ergo, it would be considered hopelessly inefficient.
So, it sounds like you're either completely missing the point, or choosing to ignore it. Which is that the build task in this case is too long and slow in proportion to the task.
(Of course, I realise this is not quite as on topic as 1970s Burroughs machines.)