Why C++ compiles slowly

[dsimcha]

== 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?