It absolutely is, if it makes compile times unreasonable for reasonable code. Compilers have to make trade-offs like this all the time, they can't use overly excessive optimizations.

I dunno. O(n^2) is for sure a bug. But O(nlogn) I think is reasonable.

O(nlogn) is probably reasonable. Why break up a long function then if you are experiencing O(nlogn) scaling of compile time on function size?

Because it can still result in compile times I find excessive. For example breaking up a function that takes 5 seconds to compile into a bunch of functions that take 1 to 2 seconds in total.