Why C++ compiles slowly

[retard]

Wed, 25 Aug 2010 14:53:58 -0400, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:

> 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? :)

He forgot:

0. use a better algorithm (the big O notation matters, like in this case)