Why C++ compiles slowly

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On Wed, 25 Aug 2010 14:37:33 -0400, Walter Bright  
<newshound2 at digitalmars.com> wrote:

> Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
>>> Just goes to show how useful a profiler is.
>>  Yes, I'm glad you pushed me to do it.  Looking forward to the fix.
>
> The two secrets to writing fast code are:
>
> 1. using a profiler
> 2. looking at the assembler output of the compiler
>
> In my experience, programmers will go to astonishing lengths to avoid  
> doing those two...

You mean like asking someone who reported low performance of your program  
on the newsgroup to do it for you? :)

-Steve