Re: else ladders practice

From	Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.c
Subject	Re: else ladders practice
Date	2024-11-29 15:29 -0800
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Bart <bc@freeuk.com> writes:

> On 28/11/2024 17:28, Janis Papanagnou wrote:
>
>> On 28.11.2024 15:27, Bart wrote:
>>
>>>> [ compilation times ]
>>>
>>> And for me, used to decades of sub-one-second response times, 7
>>> seconds seems like for ever.  [...]
>>
>> Sub-seconds is very important in response times of interactive
>> tools;  I recall we've measured, e.g. for GUI applications, the
>> exact timing, and we've taken into account results of psychological
>> sciences.  The accepted response times for our applications were
>> somewhere around 0.20 seconds, and even 0.50 seconds was by far
>> unacceptable.
>>
>> But we're speaking about compilation times.  And I'm a bit
>> astonished about a sub-second requirement or necessity.  I'm
>> typically compiling source code after I've edited it, where the
>> latter is by far the most dominating step.  And before the editing
>> there's usually the analysis of code, that requires even more time
>> than the simple but interactive editing process.
>
> You can make a similar argument about turning on the light switch
> when entering a room.  Flicking light switches is not something you
> need to do every few seconds, but if the light took 5 seconds to
> come on (or even one second), it would be incredibly annoying.

This analogy sounds like something a defense attorney would say who
has a client that everyone knows is guilty.

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Re: else ladders practice Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2024-11-27 21:18 -0800
  Re: else ladders practice Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> - 2024-11-28 14:37 +0200
    Re: else ladders practice Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2024-11-28 15:25 +0000
      Re: else ladders practice Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> - 2024-11-28 17:46 +0200
      Re: else ladders practice antispam@fricas.org (Waldek Hebisch) - 2024-12-01 13:04 +0000
        Re: else ladders practice Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2024-12-01 15:13 +0000
          Re: else ladders practice antispam@fricas.org (Waldek Hebisch) - 2024-12-06 23:30 +0000
            Re: else ladders practice Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2024-12-07 12:40 +0000
    Re: else ladders practice Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2024-11-29 21:25 -0800
      Re: else ladders practice Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2024-11-30 11:26 +0000
        Re: else ladders practice antispam@fricas.org (Waldek Hebisch) - 2024-12-01 13:19 +0000
        Re: else ladders practice Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2024-12-02 06:09 -0800
          Re: else ladders practice Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2024-12-02 14:44 +0000
            Re: else ladders practice Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2024-12-02 19:19 +0100
              Re: else ladders practice Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2024-12-02 18:48 +0000
                Re: else ladders practice Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2024-12-05 14:41 +0100
                Re: else ladders practice Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2024-12-05 15:51 -0800
                Re: else ladders practice Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2024-12-07 11:58 +0100
            Re: else ladders practice Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2024-12-05 16:24 -0800
  Re: else ladders practice Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2024-11-28 14:27 +0000
    Re: else ladders practice Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2024-11-28 18:28 +0100
      Re: else ladders practice Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2024-11-28 18:25 +0000
        Re: else ladders practice Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2024-11-29 10:36 +0100
        Re: else ladders practice Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2024-11-29 15:29 -0800
          Re: else ladders practice Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2024-11-30 03:46 +0100
            Re: else ladders practice Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2024-11-29 20:40 -0800
              Re: else ladders practice Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2024-11-30 11:00 +0100
                Re: else ladders practice Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2024-12-04 17:34 -0800
                Re: else ladders practice Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2024-12-05 14:21 +0100
    Re: else ladders practice Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2024-11-29 21:03 -0800

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