From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nick Ing-Simmons To: fjh@cs.mu.OZ.AU Cc: gcc@gcc.gnu.org, Robert Dewar , Theodore Papadopoulo , mrs@apple.com, shebs@apple.com Subject: Re: Faster compilation speed Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 04:58:00 -0000 Message-id: <20020819115806.1337.17@bactrian.elixent.com> References: <20020813161040.7146AF2D49@nile.gnat.com> <200208131720.g7DHKnMi032161@mururoa.inria.fr> <20020814044418.GA13226@ceres.cs.mu.oz.au> X-SW-Source: 2002-08/msg01081.html Fergus Henderson writes: >On 13-Aug-2002, Theodore Papadopoulo wrote: >> >> the "average >> source code" (to be defined by someone ;-) ) is also probably growing >> in size and complexity... > >Indeed. Also note that more people are using higher-level languages, >a fair number of which work by compiling to C -- generally with a >significant expansion in the number of lines of code. >For example, the Mercury compiler is about 270,000 lines of >Mercury code, which compiles to about 4.5 million lines of C code. >This takes gcc a long time to compile... There has been a perl -> C converter for a while, but nobody has been working on it because it takes so long to compile the result. -- Nick Ing-Simmons http://www.ni-s.u-net.com/