Long compile times

[BobHorne2]

I have a 2 Mb vb 6 program that takes about 1.5 hours to compile and sucks 100% cpu for the full compile time.
The machine is a Dell 1600 Mhz processor with 256Mb ram.
Is this normal. If not how can I work out what is causing it.

Thanks in advance

 

[sunaj]

2Mb with an average of 50 character per line is ~42 thousand lines. I have no programs that long. Consider compiling parts of it into dlls.
My longest programs are ~2000 thousand lines and compiles in less than 20 seconds on my old pentium 500 mhz - but then agian I have only a few simple controls.
Sunaj
'The gap between theory and practice is not as wide in theory as it is in practice'

 

[Toastie]

get more ram because you will be suprised at how much ram it does use.
i have a small program and when compiled takes 15 mins and uses 300 meg of ram with all other processes included
thats why i have 750 meg of ram (+ it was cheap)