compiling multiple source files at once

[Andreas Jaeger]

Per Bothner <per@bothner.com> writes:

> There are other advantages becsides compilation speed.  For Java, we
> can add an extra flag specifying that an emtire "package" is being
> compiled, which allows valuable optimizations.  In any case, we can
> save space due to reduced duplication of things like string literals.

This also allows to do optimizions not only on a single file level but
on an number of files.  One compiler on a Sun I used had this feature
which lead to further speedup.

Andreas
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