Zig's Andrew Kelley: "The compiler is too dam slow, that's why we have bugs..."

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On Monday, 29 January 2024 at 08:04:57 UTC, Per Nordlöw wrote:
> I'm glad Andrew too has realized in what order to fix things - 
> we all should consider performance-problems bugs.
>
> See:
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> https://youtu.be/5eL_LcxwwHg?t=565

Honestly the speed of dmd is a miracle I take for granted too 
often.  It's more than just a convenience, it contributes to a 
harmonious state of mind that I have no doubt improves the 
performance of my work and the motivation to continue it.  I 
don't doubt at all that, across a long enough period of time, 
bugs could statistically accumulate more in an environment with a 
painfully long build process than in a comparatively faster one.  
Even if you're a diligent coder and you always "do the job right" 
and make the appropriate tests and so on, there's always a point 
where you're getting up for coffee breaks on every CTRL-B, 
turning away from the screen, walking into a different room and 
resetting your mental frame, leading to ideas getting lost in the 
carpet instead of remaining fresh in your mind.