On 2019-01-06, Peter J. Holzer <hjp-pyt...@hjp.at> wrote: > On 2019-01-06 13:43:02 -0500, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: >> On Sun, 6 Jan 2019 13:26:15 +0100, "Peter J. Holzer" <hjp-pyt...@hjp.at> >> declaimed the following: >> >> >For example, about 10 years ago I built a continuous integration >> >pipeline for a project I was working on > [...] >> >The result was that any change took about half an hour to show up on >> >the server. >> >> Lucky you... In 1981 I was tasked with porting an application (FORTRAN >> IV) to a minicomputer (CDC MP60 ruggedized for military field drops). > [...] >> It took three HOURS to compile the application. > > Yes, I've been lucky to never be involved in a really large project. > Computers have become much faster since the 1980's, but programs also > have become much larger, so multi-hour compiles still exist.
On some of my (not _that_ old) machines, it takes about 1.5 days to compile the Chrome browser. -- Grant -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list