zack's todo list

law@redhat.com law@redhat.com
Tue Nov 14 08:45:00 GMT 2000


  In message < 20001113130938Q.mitchell@codesourcery.com >you write:
  > I think that the performance of the non-integrated CPP is not
  > important for 3.0. 
Agreed.  

  > It is important, in fact, only that the total time
  > taken by `gcc -c foo.c' be comparable to 2.95; we can choose to speed
  > up any part of the compiler to accomplish that.  In other words, if
  > cpp is slower, and the compiler is faster that is OK.  
Agreed again.

  > What would be nice would be if CPP were faster, and since integrated,
  > even faster, allowing us some slop for slowdowns in the compiler
  > itself....
Yup.
jeff



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