Tim Robinson?

[Solar]

Well, I don't know it either...

[Kon-Tiki]

Now you do too

[kataklinger]

Our conversation is off topic in off topic part of forum, WOW. ;D

Nobady answered the question.
Where is he? What is he doing?

[Solar]

Now you do too

No I don't, as I have neither the time nor the desire to read it, so I won't comment on it.

As to Tim's whereabouts, perhaps he went actor?

Honestly. People come, people go. Tim went elsewhere. Perhaps he lost interest in development. Perhaps (I sincerely hope not) some ill fate befell him.

The last post I found of him was 2005-05-31.

If he returns, he will still be moderator of this forum, and why not? If he doesn't return, he's still moderator of this forum - and why not?

[kataklinger]

No I don't, as I have neither the time nor the desire to read it, so I won't comment on it.

As to Tim's whereabouts, perhaps he went actor?

lol! But you had time to search the internet to find that. ;D

[Solar]

lol! But you had time to search the internet to find that. ;D

The difference being, I do my reading at home, whereas compiler runs at the office always leave time for a quick Google (or post).

[kataklinger]

Is it a slow compiler, old computer or too much code to compile?

[Solar]

Sun E15k, four SPARC v9 CPUs with 466 MHz each, 16 GByte RAM. Compilers are Sun WorkShop 6 update 1 C 5.2 and GCC 3.3.2.

288091 lines of C++ source - including 55439 lines of Boost and 43727 lines of Xerxes, and 55076 lines of Perl.

Judge for yourself.

[kataklinger]

Try put all your code in comment, it compiles faster that way. ;D

Fancy machine you have, how huch does it cost?

[Candy]

Sun E15k, four SPARC v9 CPUs with 466 MHz each, 16 GByte RAM. Compilers are Sun WorkShop 6 update 1 C 5.2 and GCC 3.3.2.

Is that the machine you're compiling on? If so, I do hope you're using some form of parallel make?

I'm working on a dual xeon, each with HT, with a compiler that can't compile in bits and that can't use more than one cpu. How ever so pointless.

[Solar]

Fancy machine you have, how huch does it cost?

No idea, company is paying the bill. We have a couple dozens of them around.

[Eero Ränik]

The difference being, I do my reading at home, whereas compiler runs at the office always leave time for a quick Google (or post).

How often do you do compiles and how long do they take?

[Solar]

Depends heavily on what I am doing. When doing a new functionality, there are lengthy stretches where I do coding only, and no compiles. Towards the end, when checking the code for compile-time errors, running the test drivers and doing the debugging, it's a tight edit-compile-evaluate-edit-compile cycle.

Luckily we have a good build / make system (ClearCase), so a compile is usually done in a minute or so. The test driver run, however, can take several minutes in itself. (Setting up the test data, running a full line coverage, comparing results with expected values.)

[kataklinger]

One hundred little bugs in the code
One hundred little bugs.
Fix a bug, link the fix in,
One hundred little bugs in the code.

(repeat until no more bugs)

;D