Path: utzoo!telly!attcan!uunet!cbmvax!ditto
From: ditto@cbmvax.UUCP (Michael "Ford" Ditto)
Newsgroups: gnu.gcc
Subject: parallelism in gcc (front end)
Message-ID: <6035@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 22 Feb 89 02:09:56 GMT
Reply-To: ditto@cbmvax.UUCP (Michael "Ford" Ditto)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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Has anyone considered making the "gcc" program (the compiler front
end) run the compiler passes in parallel, connected by pipes?  I
beleive Encore has a cc on their multi-cpu machines which does this.
This would only work on those compiler parts which are one-pass; I
think gas isn't.
-- 
					-=] Ford [=-

"The number of Unix installations	(In Real Life:  Mike Ditto)
has grown to 10, with more expected."	ford@kenobi.cts.com
- The Unix Programmer's Manual,		...!sdcsvax!crash!kenobi!ford
  2nd Edition, June, 1972.		ditto@cbmvax.commodore.com