Re: Threading the compiler

[Marcin Dalecki <martin at dalecki dot de>]

On 2006-11-11, at 06:08, Geert Bosch wrote:
> Just compiling
>   int main() { puts ("Hello, world!"); return 0; }
> takes 342 system calls on my Linux box, most of them
> related to creating processes, repeated dynamic linking,
> and other initialization stuff, and reading and writing
> temporary files for communication.

And 80% of it comes from the severe overuse of the notion of shared  
libraries on linux systems.

Marcin Dalecki