Date: Wed, 30 Mar 94 09:57:06 PST
From: stevev AT miser DOT uoregon DOT edu (Steve VanDevender)
To: terra AT diku DOT dk
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: Re: DJGPP Speed

terra AT diku DOT dk writes:

 > [NO FLAMES, PLEASE!] A recompile time of 30 minutes is what I would call a
 > genuine disaster.  It seems to be a problem with the C language itself, or
 > rather with the preprocessor scheme with .h files.

30 minutes to recompile over 10 megabytes of code?  I don't see
this as a problem.  GCC is a _huge_ program, much more than
25,000 lines.

 > I think we could improve the speed of all djgpp programs a lot by making
 > structures and procedures in go32 aligned properly.  As it is now, every-
 > thing is byte aligned and should be:

Aligning those structures might slightly improve the speed of DOS
calls through go32 but I doubt this would make much visible
difference.