30 Oct
2011
30 Oct
'11
5:58 p.m.
On 30 Oct 2011 at 20:22, Toby Thain wrote:
But of course it isn't even an exception. It fits
the rule perfectly:
'Test on what people actually use, not on what was purchased
arbitrarily for whiny developers.'
This brings up an interesting question. Has compilation speed
generally kept pace with Moore's law? Getting C compilation speeds
around 5000 lpm wasn't that unusual using a 5MHz 8088 with a hard
disk. Borland Delphi running on a P90 claimed 350,000 lines per
minute.
Could one infer that today's compilation speeds are in the range of
tens to hundreds of millions of lines per minute? Do any vendors
even advertise a number?
--Chuck