Why C++ compiles slowly

[Walter Bright]

Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
> Through some more work with printf, I have to agree with bearophile, 
> this lookup function is horrid.

It is now, but when it was originally written (maybe as long as 20 years ago) 
there were only a few strings in the table, and it was fine. It's just outlived 
its design. Clearly, it should now be a hash table.

Just goes to show how useful a profiler is.