Compilation of lengthy C++ Files

[David Brown]

On 25/10/2023 16:49, Paul Smith via Gcc-help wrote:
> On Wed, 2023-10-25 at 12:09 +0100, Richard Earnshaw wrote:
>> Those defensive measures further slow down your compiled programs.
> 
> Just to remind, Kai Song has said multiple times in these threads that
> they're not asking about improving the performance of the resulting
> compiled program.  They don't seem to mind if the resulting program
> takes days or weeks to run.
> 

He has actually said he doesn't mind if the /compile/ time is months, or 
even years!

> They are asking here about how to get the compiler to successfully
> compile the code, not how to make the compiled code faster.
> 

Yes - with an emphasis on wanting to persuade GCC to compile his 
generated code, rather than on wanting to generate code that can be 
compiled by GCC.