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Re: Suggestion for option
- To: Joern Rennecke <amylaar at redhat dot com>
- Subject: Re: Suggestion for option
- From: Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>
- Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 14:47:51 -0700
- cc: "RenE J.V. Bertin" <rjvbertin at hotmail dot com>, "gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org" <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
> Huh? as soon as you see the first error, you can start the editor to
> look at the editor. Nobody forces you to wait till the compilation
> is finished.
Your hapless computer does not go on to the next file and start compiling
that while it is sitting there waiting for this one to finish. And
yes, I have seen GCC spend half an hour optimizing a file that it issued
an error message about. And if you can use parallel make, which you can't
always, your messages come out interleaved. And if you are on a machine
where CPU cycles are precious (yes, such machines exist, I routinely
compile on large multi-user systems), you are wasting them.
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