Re: Suggested method for returning a string from a C program?

On Mon, 24 Mar 2025 16:02:57 +0000
bart <bc@freeuk.com> wibbled:

On 24/03/2025 15:00, Muttley@DastardlyHQ.org wrote:

real 0m0.815s
user 0m0.516s
sys 0m0.252s

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So, your throughput is a whopping 9.5K lines/second?

On a tired laptop with multiple files it seems pretty good to me.

Build time is 1/15th of a second, for about 30K lines (so 450Klps). But
I also want to compile this via C, to take advantage of gcc's superior
optimiser. So first I transpile to C (that's also under 70ms):

I'll paraphrase someone elses point - who fucking cares? If you need lightning
fast compilation because you're constantly rebuilding your shit code to see if
it'll even compile never mind work then that says a lot about you as a dev.
The thinking/writing to compilation time ratio I imagine with most devs would
probably be a minimum of 100 - 1, possibly much larger.

The generated C file is 38Kloc, and takes 12 seconds. It takes nearly
TWO HUNDRED TIMES longer to build.

*GASP*! 12 whole seconds! How can you cope with your day being interrupted
like that for so long!

I can tolerate that from time to time,

Get a life.