Hi John!
To throw some numbers out there, in our own defense...
Just taking a quick glance around, I found a test case in our
suite that has 483,086 lines. Not quite 500,000 - but pretty close,
(for some definition of "pretty" and "close" :-) ) The listing
has 9398 pages :-)
The last time it was assembled on an 800mhz PC running FreeBSD 5.3,
on Jan 31, 2006, it took 45 "wall" seconds and 25 CPU seconds. That
includes a full listing and cross-reference. I would expect a more
modern machine would turn in dramatically better numbers.
So - I think the workstation is quite able to handle that
size assembly.
I don't know if Java could provide that kind of performance,
but it does provide some portability.
When I say "Eclipse-based workstation", I didn't mean that
the assembler was implemented in Java, just that it integrated
with the Eclipse IDE... just to clarify that point a little.
- Dave Rivers -
> To Dave Rivers: I thought Don Higging was working on that? 8-)
> And, if an Eclipse-based workstation assembler can handle source
> files up to 500,000 lines we might consider that possibility.
>
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