On Nov 10, 2006, at 9:08 PM, Geert Bosch wrote:
I'd guess we win more by writing object files directly to disk like virtually every other compiler on the planet.
The cost of my assembler is around 1.0% (ppc) to 1.4% (x86) overhead as measured with -pipe -O2 on expr.c,. If it was converted, what type of speedup would you expect?
Most of my compilations (on Linux, at least) use close to 100% of CPU. Adding more overhead for threading and communication/ synchronization can only hurt.
Would you notice if the cost were under 0.1%? Would you care?
