From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar)
To: gcc@gcc.gnu.org, mszick@goquest.com
Subject: Re: Language-independent functions-as-trees representation
Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2002 12:47:00 -0000
Message-id: <20020824194709.0D460F2D9D@nile.gnat.com>
X-SW-Source: 2002-08/msg01530.html

>On Friday 23 August 2002 04:35 pm, Robert Dewar wrote:
>>
>> But Four thousand million characrters of sourcers is a heck of a lot.
>> This is typically a hundred million lines of source. I doubt there are
>> any programs in existence where a single compilation requires a hundred
>> million lines of source!
>See: OpenOffice.org

You are mixing up the size of a program which, if you count lots of subsystems
can of course be in this range, with the size of a single compilation which
cannot reasonably be anywhere near in this range.

(for one thing, if there was a single file to be compiled requiring hundreds
of millions of lines to compile, I doubt you would ever see gcc complete
compiling it :-)