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by 3n7r0pY 3433 days ago
The notion of waiting ages for programs to compile or assemble is mostly related to the older hardware.

I compile/assemble COBOL and IBM's assembly language on a z13 daily and it's pretty much instantaneous.

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> The notion of waiting ages for programs to compile or assemble is mostly related to the older hardware.

Oh, I was talking more about older ways to organize the data centre: batch vs timeshare processing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time-sharing