From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: dewar@gnat.com
To: gcc@gcc.gnu.org, pedwards@disaster.jaj.com
Subject: Re: Precompiled headers (or other speed ups)
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 09:35:00 -0000
Message-id: <20010110173526.2167634E40@nile.gnat.com>
X-SW-Source: 2001-01/msg00631.html

<<Perhaps in Ada parsing only takes microseconds.  In most of the C-family
languages with which I am familiar, parsing takes the majority of the time.
>>

If by parsing you mean lexical analysis and construction of the syntax
tree (NOT including static semantic analysis), then this should be very
rapid. There is nothing especially difficult about C or C++ with respect
to lexical analysis and parsing.

If the static semantic analysis is taking a lot of time, perhaps there
are some non-optimal algorithms that need looking at. I do not see why
C++ should be significantly harder to handle than Ada 95 in this regard.