end of compilation sound

[Yves]

Sometime when the code becomes significantly large my laptop takes ages to compile. It takes sometime up two minutes to complete. So I go make another cup of coffee. Could we have a ding or a dong to alert the end of compilation?

Yves
 

[John Lawton]

Crikey, maybe time to upgrade your laptop with more memory and if it hasn't already got one, an SSD?

[ricardourio]

Just as reference, my old computer takes 68 seconds to compile a 129686 program bytes, which is 98,94% of total memory, and 1914 variable bytes (49,57%), for a PIC18F87K22. As John said, the SSD makes a big difference.

Ricardo Urio
i5-3570 @3.40G
16 GB RAM
SSD 240GB

[Yves]

I agree SSD or hybrids are much faster.

Yves

[diebobo]

If its some code your willing to share I can compile it on my machine to see if its something plausible to consider upgrading.. I've got a 5950X, though I don't think the compiler is multi core enabled...

[TimB]

Many many years ago around 2002 when I first started using Proton a compile on one prog was taking 20 mins

I was able to go away and have dinner...

[Frizie]

What I always do is not optimize the program yet.
This significantly reduces compilation time 
Put the following line in your program while you are still developing a program:

Declare Optimiser_Level = 0   ;Disable the optimiser

When your program is completely finished, you can remove this line and then compile it again with optimizing 

[Yves]

Thanks Frizie,

I do Declare Optimizer = 0 . It definitely help in timing

Regards,

Yves