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Re: Compilation time
- From: Don Lindsay <lindsayd at cisco dot com>
- 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 15:51:16 -0700 (PDT)
- Subject: Re: Compilation time
> Matt Austern <austern@apple.com> writes:
> > 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.)
>
> zw
There is now a community who would like it to be fast. Specifically,
the users of ccache:
http://ccache.samba.org/
Do you have a specific reason to think .ii-writing could be made faster?
--
Don