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From: Olaf Siejka <caemyr@gmail.com>
To: ReactOS Development List <ros-dev@reactos.org>
Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2011 14:35:18 +0200
Subject: Re: [ros-dev] MP/UP HAL issues
"but *compile time* is not even 10% as important as *run time*."

I think Love that you do not imagine what is the impact of buildtime in our project. As ReactOS is not getting smaller, increased buildtime is simply slowing down development pace by a considerable margin. It might be a worthy tradeoff for a project with production version already, but not in our case. Reaching over 10 minutes of buildtime requires really top of the line hardware, not to mention dedicating whole host system to this task. For average team member, it takes not 10 but even over 30-40 minutes to do a full build. Time that is often so precious to spare.

Yes, Olaf, I *do* consider the impact of build time. It used to take me ~30 min to do a full build.

This made me abandon the RAD "trial-and-error" rebuild paradigm, and return to the old-fashioned

way of "running the code in my head" a number of times before doing another build. Now I have a

faster machine and a full build takes ~10-15 min, but I still stick with the old-fashioned way of coding

with those build times.

As for time spared, consider this, You may save 2-5 min build time, but that time is paid

for by millions of users, over and over and over again... *That* is what I mean.

WBR // Love