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Re: Threading the compiler


Geert Bosch wrote:

Given that CPU usage is at 100% now for most jobs, such as
bootstrapping GCC, there is not much room for any improvement
through threading.

Geert, I find this a bit incomprehensible, the whole point of threading is to increase CPU availability by using multiple cores.

Even in the best case, large parts of the
compilation will still be serial.
In the non-optimizing case, which is so important for the
compile-debug-edit cycle, almost no parallelism will be possible.

Well that is a completely different issue



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