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["Andraž 'ruskie' Levstik" <ruskie AT codemages.net>]

On 20:55:54 2008-05-27 Thomas Orgis <thomas-forum AT orgis.org> wrote:
> Am Tue, 27 May 2008 19:30:29 +0200
> schrieb "Andraž 'ruskie' Levstik" <ruskie AT codemages.net>:  
> 
> > But in some instances I only want a single one and then add another
> > one when needed...
> 
> Well, you get started off faster with only gcc... perhaps later seeing
> that you need g++, too...
> I kindof like to have separate spells, not being forced to install
> multiple compilers when I need one -- but that works also for one
> spell. In addition, I indeed guess that you don't add a new compiler
> from gcc that often -- without having to recompile all of it because of
> an update anyway.
> 
> What would be interesting for me is just how much more time it takes to
> compile gcc and g++ together, compared to g++ alone...
> Treeve: Can you supply some numbers there?
> 

That's easy... g++ needs gcc compiled first :) so it's gcc time+g++ time :)
for a split g++ spell... Here's how it goes iirc.

gcc
gcc+g++
gcc+g+++gcj
gcc+objc

So in all cases it adds the time for one gcc compile to the build and in
some (i.e. gcj) more...

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