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Re: Larger Compilations / Speed
- From: Gerald Pfeifer <gerald at pfeifer dot com>
- To: drfransch at netscape dot net
- Cc: gcc at gnu dot org
- Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 15:10:43 +0200 (CEST)
- Subject: Re: Larger Compilations / Speed
- References: <3F3A3712.6050404@visteon.com>
On Wed, 13 Aug 2003, Frank-René Schäfer wrote:
> When doing larger compilations (e.g. compiling linux kernels) lots of time
> is wasted just by loading and unloading gcc in and out of memory.
> Wouldn't it
> be conceivable to have gcc being load into to background and waked up
> again and again for new compilations ? For collections of small source
> files, this would prbably result in a remendous speed-up.
This is a good observation, and in fact Per Bothner has been working on
such an approach ("compile server") for Apple.
If you search the mailing list archives of the gcc and gcc-patches lists,
you should fine a couple of relevant messages.
Gerald
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