On Saturday, 14 June 2014 at 15:25:11 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
On 6/14/14, 8:05 AM, Dicebot wrote:
Adoption - yes. Production usage - less so (though still
important).
Difference between 1 second and 5 seconds is very important.
Between 10
seconds and 1 minute - not so much.
Wait, what? -- Andrei
If build time becomes long enough that it forces you to switch
the mental context, it is less important how long it takes - you
are much likely to do something else and return to it later. Of
course it can also get to famous C++ hours of build time which is
next level of inconvenience :)
But reasonably big and complicated project won't build in 5
seconds anyway (even with perfect compiler), so eventually pure
build time becomes less of a selling point. Still important but
not _that_ important.
