Mail Archives: djgpp/1996/12/17/14:17:53
Jurgen Schwietering wrote:
> 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.
But the extrapolation is invalid. gcc does a lot of loading of resources on
and off the disk, running external programs, etc. Much of the time that it
takes for a small program are taken up by this overhead.
The overhead is a "fixed cost," though; it is constant. It becomes
insignificant when your project is big enough.
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