Andi Kleen <a...@firstfloor.org> writes: > But if you need more why can't you just link the whole assembler > into gcc? That would hopefully speed up compilation too > (e.g. over time the text generation of instructions could > be bypassed)
It would help compilation time a little bit, but generating the assembly code and running the entire assembler is a fairly small percentage of the overall compilation time--e.g., 3%. It's worth doing a fair amount of work to speed up compilation by 3%, but linking the assembler into gcc would be an enormous amount of work. I would certainly support somebody who wants to tackle it, but I don't think it's very high up the priority list for the overall project. Ian
