On Mon, Jun 12, 2000 at 05:38:42PM +0100, David Murphy mentioned:
> Quoting <20000612172953.V23440 at digiserve.ie>
> by "John P. Looney (Kate)" <jplooney-ilug at online.ie>:
> > There is also the fact that compiles are lightning quick - it takes about
> > 30 seconds to compile the 23000 odd lines of (dense) code.
> How often do you compile your mail system, though?
That's not the point. It's just something I was impressed with. Now I
know why it doesn't take that much quicker to compile a program now than
it did on the RS6000's in DCU, which were prolly 40Mhz POWER
chips...header files are getting bigger...
Kate
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