i mate, who has this habit shared by me, in that he writes programs that write programs. for a 4000 line program (generated) gcc uses more than 1G of ram and takes all night to compile it. kenc zaps it.
brucee On 3/26/06, Lyndon Nerenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have fond memories of threatining the Sun sales sloths with death > > and worse if they didn't at least ship .h files after they > > unbundled the C compiler. Sun is as responsible for GCC as the > > AT&T lawyers are responsible for Linux. > > Ignoring the lawyers, gcc out-ran all of the Sun compilers for > years. It wasn't until ~2001 when I saw demonstrable proof that the > Sun compilers were ready to outrun the GNU bloatationiousness. But > meanwhile, Sun's hubris lead to others not only unbundling, but > actually spending that money on compiler design! I still love the > mipsco compilers that quote chapter and verse of the ANSI spec. And > they worked even before DEC got MIPSed. Oh wait, that was the > *other* DEC CPU. (6,7,8,10,VAX,MIPS,???) Still, the compiler worked > across all of them. >
