Howard Chu wrote:
It also somewhat blurs the
distinction between a fully linked executable file and an intermediate
relocatable object, since executables can also be incrementally
relinked. It's a real timesaver when you just need to fix one file in a
very large program.
a proper fix-and-con
* /From/: Bud Davis
* /Date/: Sat, 11 Nov 2006 16:06:44 -0800 (PST)
it is a rare single file that takes more than 30
seconds to compile (at least with gcc3 and higher).
linking the largest executable takes about 3 minutes.
(sorry to be so long-winded getting to the topic!!)
ordinar
my 'day job' is a medium sized software operation. we
have between 5 and 50 programmers assigned to a given
project; and a project is usually a couple of thousand
source files (mix of f77,c,c++, ada). all this source
get's stuck in between 50 and 100 libraries, and the
end result is less than a d
