Performance-oriented development in the commercial computing world

You don't specify what "a web browser" is. What most people mean by that is something that often won't run at all, never mind run well, on "slow machines" like my SS20. Then you're already using fast machines, and, what's more, you're working only on small pieces of software. A year or two ago, I was working (for $THEN_JOB) on something that - on a "modern" "fast" machine, mind you - took something like half an hour to build from scratch, and annoying long, multiple minutes, even to do a "nothing changed" build. And that's with everything already in cache. I moderately often work with a piece of software that, even on a relatively modern machine, takes significant time - long enough for a human to get frustrated - to build. I just now did a test build, in a ramdisk on a Core 2 Duo at 1.8GHz, and it took a minute fifty-four seconds. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML mouse at rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B