On Wed, 13 Aug 2008, Thomas Davie wrote:
On 13 Aug 2008, at 05:06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Quoting Thomas Davie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Why is separate compilation important?
I'm a little shocked that anyone on this list should have to ask this
question. Two people have asked it now.
Really? So you're using YHC then? It after all compiles *much* faster than
GHC, but produces slower binaries. To be honest, ghc compiles things so fast
(at least on any of my systems) that I couldn't care less if it took 10 times
as long (I would however like some added convenience for that time spent)
It's the ubiquitous "computers are fast enough today" argument. I don't
buy it. We don't have compile time to waste. There will always be
computers that are much slower and have less memory than the current
customer desktop computers, there are always tasks that a computer can do
instead of doing slowed down compilation. I'm glad that we have overcome
C's way of concatening all header files together before starting
compilation.
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