Vincent Diepeveen (diep@xs4all.nl) on 6/26/10 wrote:
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>Compilation time is really not a big problem. Even the largest projects you can
>compile, be it with some tools, in parallel. The amount of people where compilation
>time of a C/C++ compiler is a crucial bottleneck is quite limited on this planet,
>with all respect, by accident a few of them post on this newsgroup.

Any you know this, how?

I've worked on a Java/C++ product. I worked on the Java side. The C++ side had a build time of four hours (compiler wasn't GCC ...). This absolutely sucked, and parallel compiling it wasn't going to help much.

I'd like to think that our project was just an outlier, but I really don't know how much of one.

Do you have *ANY* actual data for your claim that compile time is not a big problem? Or are you just assuming what you want to believe?

-Mark Roulo