Re: 50 times longer to compile than copy

Lex Spoon <lex@cc.gatech.edu>
9 Nov 2000 12:12:01 -0500

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From: Lex Spoon <lex@cc.gatech.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 9 Nov 2000 12:12:01 -0500
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta GA, USA
References: 00-11-034
Keywords: performance
Posted-Date: 09 Nov 2000 12:12:01 EST

smnsn@my-deja.com writes:
> Does anybody have any idea why my local compiler would be taking
> this much time? What might the compiler be doing with all those extra
> nanoseconds? I'm not sure I can expect that my local compiler might
> be optimized for speed. Actually that's an interesting question in
> itself. Do compilers exist that improve on this 50:1 to 90:1 ratio?


Supposedly lcc is extremely fast. If you have the time, it would be
interesting to see how well it fares in this case.


-Lex

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