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There used to be a long running joke (I think perhaps Linus even coined it?) that the kernel codebase grew about as fast as CPU performance improved. I guess th

There used to be a long running joke (I think perhaps Linus even coined it?) that the kernel codebase grew about as fast as CPU performance improved. I guess that died around the time AMD released their dual core CPUs..

ethbro 9y ago
It seems reasonable, considering anyone working on it enough to need to recompile would have a minimum change time correlated with compilation time. (Incremental compilation aside)
- seanp2k2 9y ago
  Going to get a cup of coffee takes the same amount of time as it did 15 years ago, so devs still need a compile time which is roughly equivalent. 15 seconds would be much too fast, for example.
amiga-workbench 9y ago
"What Intel giveth, Microsoft taketh away"