On Nov 1, 2007, at 8:25 PM, Larry Siebenmann wrote:

> Any educated guestimates?
No, not yet.

> Maybe it's because of my modest hardware,
> but I suspect I am not entirely alone in wishing for more
> speed to allow more trial and error. ]]
We are faced with a challenge because the FB code must be converted  
to C before compiling. While this is VERY fast, it does take time.  
The gcc compiler, while producing high quality and lightning-fast  
executables,  must spend extra time to accomplish this (i.e. dead  
code strip and code optimization are NOT in the FB compiler).  
Obviously, the RUN environment used in FB will need to compile non- 
optimized to make the interactive testing turnaround time shorter.  
The FBtoC team is aware of these and other issues. When there is more  
information to share it will be posted.

Brian S.