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Re: cache misses in gcc 3.3
- From: dewar at gnat dot com (Robert Dewar)
- To: ak at muc dot de, geoffk at geoffk dot org
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, mszick at goquest dot com
- Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 13:11:43 -0500 (EST)
- Subject: Re: cache misses in gcc 3.3
> You should be aware that last time I looked, "parser" really meant
> "all the time that wasn't allocated to some other part of the compiler".
In particular, I am pretty sure parser includes lexical analysis. In
my experience when writing fast compilers, lexical analysis can consume
far more time than parsing proper.