How to make a slow compile

Kapendev alexandroskapretsos at gmail.com
Wed Aug 20 16:51:55 UTC 2025


On Wednesday, 20 August 2025 at 15:33:45 UTC, monkyyy wrote:
> once again dconf contains people who talk about compile speed 
> as if it can be slow
>
> What are they doing? Even my worse compile time abstraction was 
> O(n^2) or maybe some awful string concatenation of an entire 
> file; still effectively instant
>
> Wheres a 1000 line file that does something meta programmingly 
> useful that takes 5 minutes?
>
> Do they lose track of what the compiler is even doing? Do they 
> turn off the template recursion depth limit?

No idea. Maybe they should use shell + awk + sed more. This is 
how chads generate code **blazingly** fast.


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