From: noer@cygnus.com (Geoffrey Noer) Subject: Re: gcc -E slower in beta 18? 11 May 1997 04:39:38 -0700 Approved: cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <199705110749.AAA03382.cygnus.gnu-win32@rtl.cygnus.com> Content-Type: text Original-To: pchow@isgtec.com (Philip Chow) Original-Cc: gnu-win32@cygnus.com In-Reply-To: from "Philip Chow" at May 10, 97 02:18:30 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32@cygnus.com Philip Chow wrote: > > I just recently had some time to move all my tools from beta 14 to beta18 > and I am noticing a dramatic performance degradation for C-preprocessing > of files with gcc -E. [...] > What has changed between beta14 and beta18 which would cause file/directory > access to be slower? All of the path handling was rewritten after the beta 14 release. A lot of other major changes have happened as well. Speeding up stat calls shouldn't be too hard and is high up on my list of things to try to speed up. Maybe for beta 19? :-) -- Geoffrey Noer noer@cygnus.com - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".