DConf 2014 Day 1 Talk 4: Inside the Regular Expressions in D by Dmitry Olshansky

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On Saturday, 14 June 2014 at 15:25:11 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
> On 6/14/14, 8:05 AM, Dicebot wrote:
>> Adoption - yes. Production usage - less so (though still 
>> important).
>> Difference between 1 second and 5 seconds is very important. 
>> Between 10
>> seconds and 1 minute - not so much.
>
> Wait, what? -- Andrei

If build time becomes long enough that it forces you to switch 
the mental context, it is less important how long it takes - you 
are much likely to do something else and return to it later. Of 
course it can also get to famous C++ hours of build time which is 
next level of inconvenience :)

But reasonably big and complicated project won't build in 5 
seconds anyway (even with perfect compiler), so eventually pure 
build time becomes less of a selling point. Still important but 
not _that_ important.