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I understand you are likely doing this for shiny rocks, but life is too short to spend on abominable code bases like this.



Even in my open source income-generating code base (ardour.org) a complete build takes at least 3 minutes on current Apple ARM hardware, and up to 9mins on my 16 core Ryzen. It's quite a nice code base, according to most people who see it.

Sometimes, you just really do need hundreds of thousands of lines of C++ (or equivalent) ...




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