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What types of software and systems have you worked with that take on the order of days to compile?
by davnicwil 7y ago
What types of software and systems have you worked with that take on the order of days to compile?
- com2kid 7y ago1. Windows Mobile. 2. Microsoft Office. Windows Mobile was pre-ssd, but we were surprised when we did get the first generation of SSDs and they weren't an order of magnitude reduction in compile times. (They helped but not as much as we hoped for!)
- kasey_junk 7y agoDay long compiles used to be routine. Any c++ project in 2001 had a good chance of taking that long. I worked on a c# project in 2011 that had 18 hour builds.
- dilyevsky 7y agoI worked for telecom company and our codebase for embedded board with maaaybe 500k LOC of c/c++ (no tmp or any of that crap) took like 4+ hours. That was 2007ish. Didn’t help that our build machines were Sun garbage boxes