On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 00:34:25 -0800, Lyndon Tremblay <humasect at shaw.ca>
wrote:

> What exactly is 'slower'? Compiling, or compiled code? The former, is less
> of an issue unless doing image reworks. (Installing veiny packages, for
> example)

Its actually much bigger than that, although that's probably a big enough
issue by itself.

If you change (add and/or remove) an instance variable in a class, it
recompiles all the methods in that class and all the subclasses. For
complex class hierarchies, that can take a long time even with the fast
compiler. I can't imagine this taking 3x longer...

Later,
Jon

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