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OK that's true but I think my point still stands. Someone who is doing very heavy scientific computation with long-run times will still prefer a release build that is optimizing for run-time speedup over compile-time speedup, within reason of course.


I agree the point still largely stands, that's why I added the emphasis. Maybe I should have made the intent of that clearer.




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