Date:	Fri, 23 Dec 94 10:18:50 EDT
From:	acmq AT alpha DOT coe DOT ufrj DOT br (Antonio Carlos Moreirao de Queiroz)
To:	djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject:	Compilation times

From Stephen Turnbull, about compilation times for Ghostscript:

>             System #1        System #2
> Beta #1     2 hr 45 min*     16 hr*
> Beta #2     2 hr 10 min      9 hr 13 min
> Beta #3     2 hr 25 min      9 hr 32 min

And this with 50 MHz 486 machines...
I cant't imagine what a compiler is doing when it takes so much
time to compile something. Some gross inefficiency is evident.
My approach in developing programs to be compiled with djgpp
(or any other C compiler... All are too inefficient) is to develop
everything in Turbo Pascal and then translate to C when only small
details are missing. It is faster...

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