On Thu, 13 Aug 2009, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
Marc Weustink wrote:
Don't know about the others, but compiling is done by a separate process,
so there is a chance that your os runs it in a different core.
That's not the same as running it in a separate thread though - is it?
Quoted from a Posix Thread tutorial I found on the internet.
http://www.yolinux.com/TUTORIALS/LinuxTutorialPosixThreads.html
"Threads require less overhead than "forking" or spawning a new process
because the system does not initialize a new system virtual memory space and
environment for the process."
So wouldn't it be more efficient to create a new thread for the compiler
instead of a new process?
Efficient, yes; Desirable: absolutely not.
You cannot do that except by including the compiler in the IDE.
This opens up a whole other can of worms, finally resulting in a
less stable IDE.
As it is now, you can switch compilers on the fly; you can't do
that if the compiler is compiled-in in the IDE.
Michael.
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