On Friday, August 12, 2016 at 2:31:01 PM UTC+1, Michael Torrie wrote: > 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.
Are you one of those extremely lucky people who worked on projects in which the header files never, ever changed? Kindest regards. Mark Lawrence. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
