Faster compilation speed

[Fergus Henderson]

On 13-Aug-2002, Theodore Papadopoulo <Theodore.Papadopoulo@sophia.inria.fr> wrote:
> 
> the "average 
> source code" (to be defined by someone ;-) ) is also probably growing
> in size and complexity...

Indeed.  Also note that more people are using higher-level languages,
a fair number of which work by compiling to C -- generally with a
significant expansion in the number of lines of code.
For example, the Mercury compiler is about 270,000 lines of
Mercury code, which compiles to about 4.5 million lines of C code.
This takes gcc a long time to compile...

So I am very supportive of any work that can be done to improve the
speed of gcc.

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