On 08/12/2016 05:07 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > The first time I ever compiled a full-sized application (not a particular > large one either, it was a text editor a little more featureful than > Notepad) it took something like nine hours to compile on a Mac SE (this was > circa 1990). How mad would I have been if, eight hours and thirty minutes > into the compilation, the compiler suddenly stopped with an error caused by > a mistyped variable name?
Surely this application was built using a build system, even back then, that would allow compilation to resume and not rebuild object files that were already built. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
