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From: Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org>
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Subject: Re: gcc FUD
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2015 11:57:58 -0700
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Bartc <bc@freeuk.com> writes:
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> Because, first thing in the morning especially, you can count to 10 
> while waiting for gcc to compile even Hello World!

Perhaps you have a slow computer, or you count quickly?

"gcc hello.c -o hello" just took me 1.34 seconds on a reasonably fast
machine. Running it again took 0.024 seconds, probably because of
caching effects.

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Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) kst-u@mib.org  <http://www.ghoti.net/~kst>
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