Why C++ compiles slowly

[Walter Bright]

retard wrote:
> He forgot:
> 
> 0. use a better algorithm (the big O notation matters, like in this case)

No, I didn't forget that. There's no benefit to using a better algorithm in the 
code that isn't the bottleneck. In my experience, even very experienced 
developers are nearly always wrong about where the bottlenecks are if they've 
never used a profiler.