To: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: Re: DJGPP Speed 
Cc: jcrigler AT orl DOT mmc DOT com
From: jcrigler AT orl DOT mmc DOT com
Date: Fri, 25 Mar 1994 13:33:24 -0500
Sender: jcrigler AT orl DOT mmc DOT com

> > >   Is 200 lines per second reasonable for DJGCC 1.11?  I tested it on my
> > > 486DX2-66/16M with a SCSI disk and 2Meg SMARTDrv cache, compiling the
> > > makeinfo.c file (it has about 7500 lines, so the overhead of loading the
> > > multiple passes of the compiler would be insignificant; it took about 35
> > > seconds to compile [GCC -c only, without ld]).  I have QEMM 7.03 and QDPMI
> 
> To be fair, you aren't counting the include files in the number of lines
> compiled.

On a related subject, (Yes, I know this is really a FSF question, but I'm
asking here anyhow...), has any work been done on precompiled headers for
gcc?  This would improve compile speed.   BTW, yes, I already know that BCC
supports this, but I seem to recall seeing an academic paper on this subject
recently.
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