Date: Tue, 17 Dec 1996 12:48:22 -0500
Message-Id: <199612171748.MAA13875@delorie.com>
From: DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>
To: tweety AT Torino DOT ALPcom DOT it
CC: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
In-reply-to: <5966cr$sov@galileo.polito.it> (tweety@Torino.ALPcom.it)
Subject: Re: gcc compiles so slow?


> 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. In any case, I managed
> everything to let it go faster. Than you should also calculate the times
> you compile something and test if becomes qite impressive i.e. 8x100 and
> 0.5x100 is already a nice amout of time. ;-)

You can't extrapolate from such a small sample (one test).  You need
to compile a larger source also to determine what the static overhead
is.  For example, Borland might be 0.1 sec/line, but DJGPP might be
0.05 sec/line plus 8 seconds of overhead.