Faster compilation speed

[Russ Allbery]

Tim Josling <tej@melbpc.org.au> writes:

> The COBOL spec is about 1500 pages in a smallish font (including addenda
> and the "intrinsic functions"). My copy of the C standard, for example,
> runs to about 200 pages(1).

> (1) Excluding the library.

ISO C99 is 554 pages including the standard library, all of the annexes,
and the index, so you can even make the comparison on that basis; it's
about a third of the size of COBOL including a decent chunk of the
standard library.  (glibc includes a full POSIX implementation plus a
bunch of other stuff, so it's hard to make an apples and apples
comparison.)

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Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)             < http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ >