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Re: Compilation time
- From: Neil Booth <neil at daikokuya dot co dot uk>
- To: Zack Weinberg <zack at codesourcery dot com>
- Cc: Matt Austern <austern at apple dot com>, Paul Koning <pkoning at equallogic dot com>,dnovillo at redhat dot com, phil at jaj dot com, dberlin at dberlin dot org,mark at codesourcery dot com, ghazi at caip dot rutgers dot edu, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org,bkoz at redhat dot com
- Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 22:03:21 +0100
- Subject: Re: Compilation time
- References: <003553AE-7B43-11D7-BC0B-00039390D9E0@apple.com> <87fznzagvo.fsf@egil.codesourcery.com>
Zack Weinberg wrote:-
> > We've also found that the sum of preprocessing time and time to
> > compile a .ii file is greater than the time to compile the .cc file
> > to begin with.
>
> This is inevitable -- work is done twice. (Also, generation of the
> .ii file is slow, as no one has bothered to make it fast.)
I hope to fix this in the next 3 months.
Neil.