[modersky]

I think you got that wrong by a factor of 10. I get between 500 and 1000 lines / sec on my laptop. It depends on the code style. The more straightforward the code the faster the compile. Still with incremental compilation it means I wait rarely more than a couple of seconds.

[chrisloy]

Thanks Martin, unfortunately it's past the point where I can edit my original comment or I'd go back and fix it. As I recall you said it off-mike in Bill Venners' talk, otherwise I would have fact-checked it!

Anyway, details aside I thought it was a great illustration of the impact on compiler performance that code complexity can have.