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From: neals@tekigm2.TEK.COM (Neal Sedell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.m6809
Subject: Re: C compiler performance
Message-ID: <1795@tekigm2.TEK.COM>
Date: Fri, 22-May-87 16:10:07 EDT
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Posted: Fri May 22 16:10:07 1987
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Reply-To: neals@tekigm2.UUCP (Neal Sedell)
Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Vancouver, WA
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In article <16800002@ojibwa> tds@ojibwa writes:
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>   I just got a Disto 512K ramdisk the other day.  Would you believe 
>>>10 SECONDS<< to compile and load a "hello, world" C program!  A 
>60-liner only took 50 seconds.  I'm in love!

Under what circumstances?  With all the passes pre-loaded?  (If so how
much memory was left?)  What clock speed?  Pipes between applicable passes
or temporary files? (probably not as significant with a ramdisk...)
Optimizer pass enabled?  When I was using a ramdisk with my COCO II/Level 1
system I believe the time was around 60 seconds, half of which was spent in
c.prep, c.pass1 and c.pass2.  Notice the gawd-awful performance hit when 50+
lines are added!!!  Where they linking with everything including the kitchen
sink? ;-)

Neal Sedell