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Re: gcc compilation speed
Seyran Avanesyan wrote:
> An application runs gcc to build a shared library from souce in c. There
> is only one source file per library, which, is not bigger then 500
> lines.
> Since there are many of those c-codes it is taking too long to compile
> all the libraries.
>
> Is there any way to improve compile time other then not using any
> optimization?
>
> Or is there some kind of utility that I can run and send "compile jobs"
> to it without unloading it from memory?
>
> By the way -pipe reduced compile time by 10% on small files (10 lines of
> code). For bigger files (~ 500 lines) it added another 10% to compile
> time.
> I'm doing this on Windows Vista 64-bit machine using 32-bit MinGW with
> gcc3.4.5 (and 64-bit MinGW with gcc4.4.0).
Precompiled headers might help. That's all I can think of.
Andrew.