> It would help compilation time a little bit, but generating the > assembly code and running the entire assembler is a fairly small > percentage of the overall compilation time--e.g., 3%. It's worth > doing a fair amount of work to speed up compilation by 3%, but linking > the assembler into gcc would be an enormous amount of work. I would
Curious -- why do you think it would be that much work? I admit I haven't looked into gas code, but naively it can't be all that difficult to e.g. run gas as a thread and pass the text input through some shared memory buffer? That would likely not speed up thinks too much, but it could be a starting for more short cuts. -Andi
