the python name

[Grant Edwards]

On 2019-01-06, Peter J. Holzer <hjp-python at hjp.at> wrote:
> On 2019-01-06 13:43:02 -0500, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
>> On Sun, 6 Jan 2019 13:26:15 +0100, "Peter J. Holzer" <hjp-python at hjp.at>
>> declaimed the following:
>> 
>> >For example, about 10 years ago I built a continuous integration
>> >pipeline for a project I was working on
> [...]
>> >The result was that any change took about half an hour to show up on
>> >the server.
>> 
>> 	Lucky you... In 1981 I was tasked with porting an application (FORTRAN
>> IV) to a minicomputer (CDC MP60 ruggedized for military field drops).
> [...]
>> 	It took three HOURS to compile the application.
>
> Yes, I've been lucky to never be involved in a really large project.
> Computers have become much faster since the 1980's, but programs also
> have become much larger, so multi-hour compiles still exist.

On some of my (not _that_ old) machines, it takes about 1.5 days to
compile the Chrome browser.

-- 
Grant