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Re: Threading the compiler
On Nov 10, 2006, at 9:08 PM, Geert Bosch wrote:
I'd guess we win more by writing object files directly to disk like
virtually every other compiler on the planet.
The cost of my assembler is around 1.0% (ppc) to 1.4% (x86) overhead
as measured with -pipe -O2 on expr.c,. If it was converted, what
type of speedup would you expect?
Most of my compilations (on Linux, at least) use close to 100% of
CPU. Adding more overhead for threading and communication/
synchronization can only hurt.
Would you notice if the cost were under 0.1%? Would you care?