In fairness, the phrase he used was "looks like". I don't think his comment was intended to suggest that he'd done rigorous and exhaustive wide-spectrum analysis of compile times and executable size, just that expectations matched the result for his project.
Thanks :) I'm no stranger to the scrutiny of Hacker News, I did 3 builds in a row and threw out the 1st one (cache), the last two were within 0.1s of each other, so I copied & pasted the latter.
