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Re: Of Bounties and Mercenaries
- From: kenner at vlsi1 dot ultra dot nyu dot edu (Richard Kenner)
- To: sxanth at ceid dot upatras dot gr
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Sat, 3 Apr 04 10:04:05 EST
- Subject: Re: Of Bounties and Mercenaries
If gcc 3.5 is ten times slower compiling programs at -O2, that's a
good thing: it means that it does more to procude better code.
No. Producing better code means producing better code. Compiling slower
means compiling slower. One would *hope that the latter means the former,
but that has to be shown, not just implied.
A program is compiled once but executed 100000 times.
True, but that's often not relevant to developers, who care about how
quickly they can compile their applications.