Re: else ladders practice

From	Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.c
Subject	Re: else ladders practice
Date	2024-12-05 16:24 -0800
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Bart <bc@freeuk.com> writes:

> On 02/12/2024 14:09, Tim Rentsch wrote:
>
>> Bart <bc@freeuk.com> writes:
>>
>>> On 30/11/2024 05:25, Tim Rentsch wrote:
>>>
>>> EVERYBODY cares about compilation speeds.  [...]
>>
>> No, they don't.  I accept that you care about compiler speed.
>> What most people care about is not speed but compilation times,
>> and as long as the times are small enough they don't worry about
>> it.
>>
>> Another difference may be relevant here.  Based on other comments
>> of yours I have the impression that you frequently invoke
>> compilations interactively.  A lot of people never do that (or do
>> it only very rarely).  In a project I am working on now I do
>> builds often, including full builds where every .c file is
>> recompiled.  But all the compilation times together are only a
>> small fraction of the total, because doing a build includes lots
>> of other steps, including running regression tests.  Even if the
>> total compilation time were zero the build process wouldn't be
>> appreciably shorter.
>
> But it might be appreciably longer if the compilers you used were
> a lot slower!  Or needed to be invoked more.  [...]

I concede your point.  If things were different they wouldn't
be the same.

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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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