Re: else ladders practice

Bart <bc@freeuk.com> writes:

On 28/11/2024 17:28, Janis Papanagnou wrote:
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On 28.11.2024 15:27, Bart wrote:
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[ compilation times ]

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And for me, used to decades of sub-one-second response times, 7
seconds seems like for ever.  [...]

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Sub-seconds is very important in response times of interactive
tools;  I recall we've measured, e.g. for GUI applications, the
exact timing, and we've taken into account results of psychological
sciences.  The accepted response times for our applications were
somewhere around 0.20 seconds, and even 0.50 seconds was by far
unacceptable.
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But we're speaking about compilation times.  And I'm a bit
astonished about a sub-second requirement or necessity.  I'm
typically compiling source code after I've edited it, where the
latter is by far the most dominating step.  And before the editing
there's usually the analysis of code, that requires even more time
than the simple but interactive editing process.

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You can make a similar argument about turning on the light switch
when entering a room.  Flicking light switches is not something you
need to do every few seconds, but if the light took 5 seconds to
come on (or even one second), it would be incredibly annoying.

This analogy sounds like something a defense attorney would say who
has a client that everyone knows is guilty.