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Re: gcc compile-time performance
On Sat, May 18, 2002 at 02:04:18PM +0200, Marc Espie wrote:
> People work with old architectures for the challenge, and because they
> have fun with it. And some other people are very happy to be able to DO
> something, like run Unix, on their 1980 amiga/atari/vax/m88k/whatever.
It's not just old hardware where this matters. If you're in a release
cycle for a product, and you're doing full builds of an entire OS multiple
times, the increased time the compiler takes to do its job means one of
two things:
1. Your release cycle takes longer.
2. Your testing coverage isn't going to be as good.
(That may be a bit over-simplifed, but you get the idea :-)
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