From: Erik Max Francis <max AT alcyone DOT com>
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Subject: Re: gcc compiles so slow?
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 1996 09:32:05 -0800
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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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