What's the best way to minimize the need of run time checks?

[breamoreboy at gmail.com]

On Friday, August 12, 2016 at 2:31:01 PM UTC+1, Michael Torrie wrote:
> On 08/12/2016 05:07 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> > The first time I ever compiled a full-sized application (not a particular
> > large one either, it was a text editor a little more featureful than
> > Notepad) it took something like nine hours to compile on a Mac SE (this was
> > circa 1990). How mad would I have been if, eight hours and thirty minutes
> > into the compilation, the compiler suddenly stopped with an error caused by
> > a mistyped variable name?
> 
> Surely this application was built using a build system, even back then,
> that would allow compilation to resume and not rebuild object files that
> were already built.

Are you one of those extremely lucky people who worked on projects in which the header files never, ever changed?

Kindest regards.

Mark Lawrence.