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Re: Faster compilation speed

Linus Torvalds wrote:

> One fundamental fact on modern hardware is that data cache locality is
> good, and not being in the cache sucks.  This is not likely to change. 

This is a fact.


Measuring this sort of thing is possible.  (Optimizing without
measuring is seldom a good idea.)  In the absence of processor pods
and bus analyzers, has anyone thrown gcc at a tool like 'valgrind' or
cachegrind?

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