Re: using templates in shared library

[Kasper Peeters <K dot Peeters at damtp dot cam dot ac dot uk>]

> ?  Give us some hard numbers as to the cycles wasted.  I don't think
> it'll amount to much in a real project.

On my machine, -frepo repeatedly compiles my sources until all
templates are done. When it does that n times, it is roughly n times
slower than the default, which instantiates all templates
immediately. (I know, it's not that bad, but this estimate is pretty
close in a real-world, slow nfs, bad caching situation).

> I see no reason why it can't, we look forward to a submission for this
> enhancement from you.  :-)

Sorry, there are only 25 hours in a day and mine are filled twice
already. If someone could hold my hand and point me at the proper
place in the source tree I might be tempted to give it a try, but I
don't have time for an extensive study of the egcs internals first.

I'm just a little surprised to hear that this feature is not already
somewhere high on the wish list or even implemented a long time
ago. Does everyone really do all instantiations by hand when things
get more complicated than creating a single large binary? Or do you
all accept duplicate code on disk? I've never seen any project that
uses the -frepo solution in the way Mike proposed it either.

Kasper