Mail Archives: djgpp/1996/12/17/10:58:00
On 17 Dec 1996, Jurgen Schwietering wrote:
> : Eight seconds is slow? How fast can you debug, anyway? When I look at the
> : speed of a tool, I compare it to *my* speed, not some other tool's.
>
> You are right, but this is not the point, if something quite empty takes 8
> seconds, i extrpolate and for large projects, I doubt that the difference
> would be only the validation of a human tester.
This extrapolation is invalid. The overhead of gcc loading the different
compiler/linker passes is additive, not multiplicative. So you get those
same 8 (or whatever) seconds *added* to the compilation time, no matter
how large the source file is. The 8sec thumb rule is just a quick and
dirty method to see if the installation is about right (sans some fine
tuning) or downright broken.
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