Re:Generics in Go with Ian Lance Taylor (2019)
by davnicwil on Tuesday February 18, 2020 @07:45PM
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What types of software and systems have you worked with that take on the order of days to compile?
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Re:Generics in Go with Ian Lance Taylor (2019)
by kasey_junk on Tuesday February 18, 2020 @11:39PM
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Day long compiles used to be routine. Any c++ project in 2001 had a good chance of taking that long.
I worked on a c# project in 2011 that had 18 hour builds.
Re:Generics in Go with Ian Lance Taylor (2019)
by dilyevsky on Wednesday February 19, 2020 @02:32AM
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I worked for telecom company and our codebase for embedded board with maaaybe 500k LOC of c/c++ (no tmp or any of that crap) took like 4+ hours. That was 2007ish. Didn’t help that our build machines were Sun garbage boxes
Re:Generics in Go with Ian Lance Taylor (2019)
by com2kid on Tuesday February 18, 2020 @11:24PM
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1. Windows Mobile.
2. Microsoft Office.
Windows Mobile was pre-ssd, but we were surprised when we did get the first generation of SSDs and they weren't an order of magnitude reduction in compile times. (They helped but not as much as we hoped for!)