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Re: Converting the gcc backend to a library?
- To: geoffk at envy dot cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: Converting the gcc backend to a library?
- From: kenner at vlsi1 dot ultra dot nyu dot edu (Richard Kenner)
- Date: Tue, 11 Jan 00 07:27:17 EST
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
The main benefit of such a change would be to reduce disk space
consumption. On this machine, the four 2.95.2 GCC compilers average
2.5MB each, for a total of 10MB. I expect you could reduce that to
about 4MB using a shared library for the common back-end.
True, but 1 GB is about $100 today, so you're talking about saving 60 *cents*!