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From: David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no>
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Subject: Re: Baby X is bor nagain
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2024 13:46:22 +0200
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On 24/06/2024 13:17, bart wrote:
> On 24/06/2024 09:28, David Brown wrote:
>> On 24/06/2024 02:56, Scott Lurndal wrote:
>>> bart <bc@freeuk.com> writes:
>>>> On 24/06/2024 00:52, Malcolm McLean wrote:
>>>
>>>>> 43 seconds compile time is getting to be a bit of a problem. But 
>>>>> not for
>>>>> the final build. Only for intermediate builds.
>>>>
>>>> That isn't the issue here (it could have been 4.3 seconds vs 1.7 
>>>> seconds).
>>>>
>>>> David Brown was claiming there was little difference (15%, although on
>>>> the 34.3s and 30.8s timings, it is actually 11% not 15%) between
>>>> optimised and unoptimised builds, whereas I have always seen 
>>>> substantial
>>>> differences like 100% or more.
>>
>> I think the main problem is that Bart doesn't understand what "builds" 
>> are.  And he doesn't understand the relevance - or irrelevance - of 
>> compile times while developing software, and how they relate to 
>> /build/ times or /development/ time.  I don't care how long it takes 
>> to compile a file - I care how long the build takes.
> 
> I've been building programs for approaching half a century, and I've 
> been developing tools do so for most of that.
> 
> Do you really thing I don't know what a 'build' is?

Given your decade (at least) old battle to misunderstand the most 
commonly used build tool, yes.