Re: C/C++ programmer giving Ada95 a chance -- writing an emulator.

[Gautier <gautier.demontmollin@maths.unine.ch>]

>   Kilgallen@eisner.decus.org.nospam wrote:

> > A faster compiler can result in a considerably larger number
> > of compilations to reach the same end result, possibly with a
> > much longer wall clock time.

Robert Dewar wrote:
 
> That's an argument more appropriate to the 70's than now.

> For a long time now, compilers have been fast enough on most
> machines (perhaps not on Vaxes running VMS :-) that working
> on individual modules (the most normal case), recompiling
> and relinking are fast enough in most environments that this
> is not a major barrier.

There is an exception to both arguments: compiling with DEC
Ada on a fast AXP server. Compiling a module with a few errors
can produce thousands of lines of fast scrolling terrifying
disagnostics, so I hesitate to recompile too early...

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