Why C++ compiles slowly

[retard]

Wed, 25 Aug 2010 19:08:37 +0000, dsimcha wrote:

> == Quote from retard (re at tard.com.invalid)'s article
>> 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)
> 
> Yeah, but unless you use a profiler, how are you going to find those
> spots where N isn't as small as you thought it would be?

Test-driven develoment, automatic testing tools, common sense? Sometimes 
the profiler's output is too fine-grained.