The 1950s were a different time. Nowadays computing power is almost too cheap to meter. I do not think anyone at almost any software company knows how to answer

The 1950s were a different time. Nowadays computing power is almost too cheap to meter. I do not think anyone at almost any software company knows how to answer the question "how much money are we spending on running our compilers". In most cases, I suspect the cost of running the compiler dominated by the salary of the programmer as he types "make" and waits for the compilation to finish. We live in a world where every employee has a previously unimaginable amount of processing power dedicated for their personal use that spends almost all of its time idling. That results in a far different calculus than the world where processing power is a scarce resource.