Mark Roulo (nothanks@xxx.com) on 6/29/10 wrote:
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>Another way to look at this, though, is that the compiler developers (ICC, GCC,
>MSVC++) should be willing to spend *their* developer resources ensuring that their
>tools run quickly. After all, their user base is 10s of thousands, if not 100s of thousands.

To some extent. But the argument others have made is that
compiling C++ is inherently slower than compiling other
languages. If that's true, then we can't really blame the compiler writers for the outcome (except inasmuch as they
influence the language design).

Gcc in particular has a tricky job of handling many
different input languages and many target architectures:
that makes it enormously useful, but very probably far
from optimal for the most interesting combinations
(e.g. C++ on x86).