In a current project, I have fewer than 20K lines and it's 50ish seconds for a clean re-compile on a very decent laptop (less than a year old, 32Gb RAM, quadcore i7, fast PCIe/NVMe SSD, etc.).
Particularly as I'm a test driven type of developer - cycling between running unit tests and adding small fixes is painful. Even when you can trust the incremental compilation, 10 or 20 seconds between making small one-line fixes and the test re-starting means the temptation to check hackernews or whatever kicks in and any chance of achieving "flow" evaporates.
I'm almost considering the suggestion (for Scala) in the article - and moving back to Java.
In a current project, I have fewer than 20K lines and it's 50ish seconds for a clean re-compile on a very decent laptop (less than a year old, 32Gb RAM, quadcore i7, fast PCIe/NVMe SSD, etc.).
Particularly as I'm a test driven type of developer - cycling between running unit tests and adding small fixes is painful. Even when you can trust the incremental compilation, 10 or 20 seconds between making small one-line fixes and the test re-starting means the temptation to check hackernews or whatever kicks in and any chance of achieving "flow" evaporates.
I'm almost considering the suggestion (for Scala) in the article - and moving back to Java.