RE: [GD-General] Compile times

[Brian H. <bri...@py...>]

> On macosx, compile for the same code takes about 45 minutes.
> On linux, about 30 for a full rebuild.

That seems...weird.  Granted, these are different machines, but in my
experience VC hasn't been that much faster unless you're heavily
leveraging incremental linking and precompiled headers.  My own code
base seems to take a similar amount of time on OS X (G4/867) and my
P3/933, maybe a tad slower, but not by a factor of 9.

> It's just very convenient to use STL when making something go 
> as soon as possible.
 
If you're seeing 5 minute full rebuild times and incremental changes
only taking a few seconds, then I would agree that STL is a complete win
in that situation, but the cases I hear about are more extreme.

I can't help but wonder if your slow rebuilds on Linux and OS X are the
result of using gcc and STL?  Because that factor of 9 is just mind
bogglingly dramatically different, enough so that it would raise alarm
bells.  gcc has issues, but damn, not THAT many issues.

Brian