[Mono-dev] Incremental C# compiler

[Miguel de Icaza]

Hello,

> I actually do not know what takes so long on compilation. Can anyone 
> give me a rough estimate on how long the compiling stages take please?
> - lexing, parsing, semantic analysis and such
> - emission of code to System.Reflection.Emit
> - Saving of the assembly on disk

It is documented on the manual page:

gmcs --timestamp file.cs

Miguel.