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Re: Converting the gcc backend to a library?
Jamie Lokier wrote:
>
> Richard Kenner wrote:
> > Yes, I do understand that. But my point is that in today's
> > single-user workstation environment, how many processes that actually
> > would use the GCC shared library would actually be simultaneously
> > running in practice? I still believe that number is very small and
> > only rarely over one.
make -j would start making sense even on single processor system.
> That's because no-one uses Java :-)
>
> But imagine when TCL uses dynamic compilation (just a thought). I know
> people who run quite a few TCL applications, e.g. for mail, news, info
> browsing. Imagine when <ahem> Emacs uses dynamic compilation ;-)
> I personally often have 2 Emacs processes running at a time -- one main
> one, and another in an xterm for editing messages like this one.
>
> That leaves Mozilla for Javascript and Java. And every Gnome scripted
> application that use Guile.
>
> enjoy,
> -- Jamie
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