Re: gcc compile-time performance

[Hans Aberg]

At 17:50 -0400 2002/05/20, Robert Dewar wrote:
><That makes no sense to me at all.  If I could only fix one typo at a
>time, progress would be quite a bit slower.
>>
>
>Well if you have an instantaneous compiler and an integrated environment
>which puts you at the error, immediately ready to correct, it's a
>reasonable approach. It was the way UCSD Pascal worked, and many people
>found it quite convenient.

If one should carry out the suggestion as fundamentalisticly as the quote
above, then one should get down to a compile time of about no more than a
few seconds; with anything more than that, it becomes annoying.

There is a system for TeX (BlueSky for MacOS) that compiles the code
continuously, whenever one types and reports the errors. For such a system
to very practical, one needs a very fast computer, plus preferably a
language/compiler combination especially designed for that.

  Hans Aberg