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by mrlyc 2855 days ago
It depends on what you're used to. When I stated programming 42 years ago, it took two days between submitting the punched card deck to the computer centre and getting a printout of the results. Now I get concerned if my program takes longer than 20 seconds to compile.
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>I get concerned if my program takes longer than 20 seconds to compile.

I go into a rage at 2 seconds!

Both of you should try building chromium with ninja builds on any non-ssd system. every freaking header change used to be close to 20 minutes if the gods are happy.