Potential of a compiler that creates the executable at once

[user1234]

On Friday, 11 February 2022 at 22:08:57 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 11, 2022 at 08:23:10PM +0000, rempas via 
> Digitalmars-d wrote:
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> It's not that it's *hard*.  It's pretty straightforward, and 
> everybody knows what it means.
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> The problem is the mostly-unfounded *interpretations* that 
> people put on it.
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> In the bad ole days, LoC used to be a metric used by employers 
> to measure their programmers' productivity. (I *hope* they 
> don't do that anymore, but you never know...)  Which is 
> completely ridiculous because the amount of code you write has 
> very little correlation with the amount of effort you put into 
> it. It's trivial to write 1000 lines of sloppy boilerplate code 
> that accomplishes little; it's a lot harder to write condense 
> that into 50 lines of code that does the same thing 10x faster 
> and with 10% of the memory requirements.

That's why I told earlier that OpenHUB is old trash. Their 
estimation [for 
DMD](https://www.openhub.net/p/dmd/estimated_cost), based on 
model from **the late 70's**