On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 09:24:20AM -0700, Mark Mitchell wrote: > Here, we won't be making syscalls
Yes, you almost certainly will. If you've got a thousand object files, you probably don't want to keep them all opened all the time; there are these pesky things like open file descriptor limits, for instance, and you'll tend to degrade performance. -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery