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

[René Rebe <rene@...>]

Joshua Jensen wrote:
> ----- 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.
I guess mostly C code then? Many mid-sized C++ files (making heavy use of
static polymorphisms) already bring quite some boxes to swap to disk, before
g++ is eventuallyed killed away Out Of Memory, ...

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