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Re:You Suck at Excel with Joel Spolsky (2015) [video] by flukus on Thursday September 08, 2016 @05:39AM (#12451523)
>- Balls of spaghetti of unimaginable proportions. One c++ guy at a big bank told me he takes 7 hours to compile. He's writing execution code, which you'd think would be relatively snappy.

How long should it take? The last time I did anything of note in c++ was on a computer of 2000's vintage and 7 hour builds were pretty common.

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Re:You Suck at Excel with Joel Spolsky (2015) [video] by rwallace on Thursday September 08, 2016 @07:01AM (#12451864)
If you're taking seven hours to build, you have too few computers per programmer. Compiling C++ parallelizes well, and computers are dirt cheap compared to the cost of employing people.
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Re:You Suck at Excel with Joel Spolsky (2015) [video] by lordnacho on Thursday September 08, 2016 @05:52AM (#12451584)
A few minutes. And that's for a pretty comprehensive HFT system, cleaned.

If you're taking hours there's just a lot of dependencies that could probably be refactored.

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