On 7/7/12 11:26 PM, Adam Wilson wrote:
On Sat, 07 Jul 2012 19:33:22 -0700, Andrei Alexandrescu
<seewebsiteforem...@erdani.org> wrote:
On 7/7/12 8:29 PM, Adam Wilson wrote:
Sure they complain, but they would complain harder if the generated code
was sub-optimal or had bugs in it. And I imagine that multiple hour
build times are more the exception than rule even in C++, my
understanding is that all 50mloc of Windows can compile overnight using
distributed compiling. Essentially, my argument is that for business
compilation time is something that can be attacked with money, where
code generation and perf bugs are not.
I'm sorry, but I think you got that precisely backwards.
Andrei
Why is that?
Compilation is a huge bottleneck for any major C++ code base, and adding
hardware (distributing compilation etc) is survival, but definitely
doesn't scale to make the problem negligible.
In contrast, programmers have considerable control about generating fast
code.
Andrei
