30 Oct
2011
30 Oct
'11
8:41 p.m.
Could one infer that today's compilation speeds
are in the range of
tens to hundreds of millions of lines per minute?
One could.
I suspect one would come to an incorrect conclusion by doing so,
though, unless the contemplated situation involves using an 8088-era
compiler. I just now tried compiling my tar (11301 lines, 304572
bytes) on my fastest CPU (one core of a 1.8GHz Core 2 Duo) and it
compiled and linked in 1.8 seconds. That's a little over a third of a
million lpm, for reasonably modern gcc on a reasonably modern machine.
Unfortunatley I don't have an 8088-era compiler at ready hand to try.
/~\ The ASCII Mouse
\ / Ribbon Campaign
X Against HTML mouse at rodents-montreal.org
/ \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B