Re: comments on getting the most out of multi-core machines

2006-11-11 Thread Robert Dewar
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

re: comments on getting the most out of multi-core machines

2006-11-11 Thread Howard Chu
* /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