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In article <14147@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> c60a-1cu@e260-1f.berkeley.edu writes:

>In article <923@l.cc.purdue.edu> cik@l.cc.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin) writes:
>>If execution time is not that important, why should compiler time
>>be any more important?

>Becuase compile times are directly related to programmer productivity.

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>Do this a couple of hundred
>times, and the lost time really adds up....

But what about the time the *users* spend waiting for the program to 
execute?  Since the number of users in many (most?) cases is strictly
greater than the number of programmers, any gains in execution speed will
be multiplied accordingly.

In an earlier posting someone suggested that if you need better execution
speed, then you should buy a bigger machine.  What if you want to target
a small machine?  If you can make it run in a reasonable amount time on a
smaller machine, you will increase your potential market (assuming you are
planning to *sell* your program).