[J3] Question to compiler developers about compilation speed

[Van Snyder]

On Tue, 2024-10-29 at 15:32 +0000, Clune, Thomas L. (GSFC-6101) via J3
wrote:
> But I was quite surprised to find the actualbuild time did not
> significantly improve.   First, we have found that each new
> submodules often takes a similar amount of time to compile as the
> original module.   Second, we also found that the depopulated module
> was often nearly as expensive to compile as the original. 

I suspect it's dominated by I/O to read the compilers' representations
of accessible module entities. It would be difficult (or impossible)
for users such as Tom to profile the compilers to verify this
conjecture.

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