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by WildParser 1907 days ago
Comparing compile times is done rarely. I sometimes tried to google some comparisons, but didn't find much.

For a typical 1,5 MLOC project my clean build times are sitting around 40 seconds.

I think that's pretty good, but I don't think I have a way to improve it much. Without writing a compiler from scratch I think 10 seconds are out of reach for me...
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algo_trader 1906 days ago
Do u think your company will consider cloud compiler if this is x5 faster? There issues such as latency, delta synchronizing, and tool versioning. But its doable.

If u build such a service (pun intended!), the issues are probably cost and security.

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WildParser 1906 days ago
Improvements in build-time are very valuable to me. But I'm not sure if a cloud would help me much. Synching can easily eat up 10s. Also my tools are very unique (including a parser that I wrote myself).

To be faster than local a cloud would have to be massively overclocked - and I can already reach good results locally.

For actual improvements I need a massive improvement in compiler technology (last time I looked there were just too many single-threaded bottlenecks in my build process). Nothing a cloud can solve for me.

Security is one issue - but hackers will most likely only get confused when they try to understand what is going on - also costs I usually don't like...

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