Re: Lua "amalgamation" for 5-10% speed improvement and ease of use

[Joshua Jensen <jjensen@...>]

----- Original Message -----
From: René Rebe
Date: 8/27/2008 6:08 AM
> Note that all this is handled by modern compilers with link time 
> optimizations,
> such as possible with LLVM and it's work is in progress for gcc. So 
> hopefully
> this manually cat'ing together source files can soon be a relict of 
> the past :-)
The compile times are also seriously faster.  In fact, for every modern 
compiler I've worked with across many platforms, creating an 
amalgamation file (we use the term 'lump') improves overall compilation 
times in a major way.

Josh