Walter Bright Wrote: -snip- > (Back in the olden days, when men were men and and the sun revolved about the > earth, everyone raved about Borland's compilation speed. In tests I ran > myself, > I found that it was fast, right up until you hit a certain size of source > code, > maybe about 5000 lines. Then, it fell off a cliff, and compile speed was > terrible. But hey, it looked great in those tiny benchmarks.) -snip-
Back in the olden days... "[Wirth] used the compiler's self-compilation speed as a measure of the compiler's quality." http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/dont-jump-to-conclusions.php#app
