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Re: [Patch, fortran, RFC] PR 40958 Reduce size of module files

On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 4:51 PM, Janne Blomqvist
<blomqvist.janne@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I suspect this is not worth doing. As I've mentioned before, the Go
> developers claim that one major reason why go compilation is so fast
> is that transitive dependencies are included (go stores the "module"
> information in the .o file, but the principle is similar to Fortran
> modules). See pages 9-10 on
>
> ?http://assets.en.oreilly.com/1/event/45/Another%20Go%20at%20Language%20Design%20Presentation.pdf
>
Interestingly, this is what the Cray compiler does by default (you
have to ask explicitly to get .mod files)

Salvatore
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