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Re: Converting the gcc backend to a library?


> make -j would start making sense even on single processor system.

On the contrary, gcc would become more cpu-intensive because shared library
code has higher register pressure to accomodate the pic register
(particularily bad on the x86) and to run the dynamic linker.
A statically linked cc1* executable that is shared among multiple processes
uses less CPU to run.

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