Back in the day.... about 23 years ago I had a friend who wrote custom
desktop software written in C.  I think he told me his C program would
take an hour or more to compile.  Back then he was running an Intel CPU
running at (I hope I get this right) 133MHz with maybe 4M of RAM.  That
was state of the art back then.   

I wondering what compile times might look like on modern hardware?   

On 2018-05-11 23:05, trent shipley wrote:

> I'm thinking about getting a new laptop. Mine is several years old, and while it's quite serviceable, it boots really slowly, and it doesn't like to run a guest Ubuntu OS under Oracle VirtualBox. Also, I foresee more compiling in my future, even though of late I've been rather truant about working on my own through my Haskell book. I will say no more about the R book. I don't game, because it is addicting, and therefore bad for me. 
> 
> I tend to try to get as much life as possible out of a computer, because I am poor. I have heard good things about ASUS. I see more Linux in my future, but I have to have Windows and since Windows tends to come preinstalled, I expect it would be my native, host OS. 
> 
> I'd like to spend $500, but could (and probably will) stretch to $700. 
> 
> What could I expect to get for that, and what would you suggest. 
> 
> Trent. 
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