From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Phil Edwards To: Mike Stump Cc: Stan Shebs , gcc@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Re: Faster compilation speed Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2002 18:38:00 -0000 Message-id: <20020812213756.A1167@disaster.basement.lan> References: <20020809192911.A14840@disaster.basement.lan> X-SW-Source: 2002-08/msg00715.html On Mon, Aug 12, 2002 at 04:24:46PM -0700, Mike Stump wrote: > On Friday, August 9, 2002, at 04:29 PM, Phil Edwards wrote: > > Personally, "fastest compile possible" usually just means > > -fsyntax-only. > > -fsyntax-only isn't a compile. My point, if we're nitpicking, is that almost every single time I hear a user complain that, "gcc is taking so long," it's immediately followed by, "all I want to do is check that I got the template specializations in the right order," etc. So they use -fsyntax-only while writing their code, and then fire off a "real" build at -O5.2e7 and go home for the evening. Phil -- I would therefore like to posit that computing's central challenge, viz. "How not to make a mess of it," has /not/ been met. - Edsger Dijkstra, 1930-2002