Re: Precompiled headers (or other speed ups)

[Phil Edwards <pedwards at disaster dot jaj dot com>]

> This is quite surprising, depending on what parsing means, if parsing
> means just building a syntax tree from the grammar, it is amazing that
> this should take any time at all compared to other phases.

Perhaps in Ada parsing only takes microseconds.  In most of the C-family
languages with which I am familiar, parsing takes the majority of the time.

My only point here is that precompiled headers /do/ make a difference and
/will/ be a very big win once they are implemented, especially for C++.
The current 10x-20x lossage on PPC is painful to hear about, and I don't
even use that platform.  :-)


Phil

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