On 7/7/2012 4:08 PM, Adam Wilson wrote:
On Sat, 07 Jul 2012 11:48:44 -0700, Walter Bright <newshou...@digitalmars.com>
wrote:
On 7/7/2012 8:38 AM, Alex Rønne Petersen wrote:
On a high-end 4-core x86, building LLVM and LDC can usually be
done in less than an hour, even when building them in optimized mode.
Building dmd on my Windows box takes 26 seconds, optimized, using a single core.
Build speed of the compiler itself is an utterly trivial matter, my primary
concern is speed for the end-user. Even the build speed/memory usage of my
projects is not a problem, I can always throw more money at hardware. For
example, I am considering making the next round of developer box updates to
Intel Xeon E1650's with 32GB RAM.
Gentlemen, from a business prospective, compiler and/or project build times are
the least of your problems. How well the code performs and most importantly the
accuracy of the code generation is of key concern.
Throwing more hardware at a problem isn't going to get you a 120x increase in
speed.
While you're right that the customer cares not how long it takes to build the
compiler, the speed is important for the edit-compile-debug loop of developing
the compiler. For me, it matters quite a bit.
