I believe the question is more what are the frequency you touch a file . If you organize your code a such way that the code you never change is on its own set of file and not in the same .c that the file you keep changing, Or if you hunt all the un-necessary includes, you may speed up your compilation.
Jerome Despret Fallen Angels Mud & FAERIE area editor http://fangels.wolfpaw.net -----Original Message----- From: Alexander Nicholas Thaler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 16, 2002 11:09 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: Performance Question Actually, I guess I should correct myself here: 1 1000 line file will (in general) compile faster than 1 10000 line file. But 10 1000 line files should be almost identical to 1 10000 line file. So you're right, it shouldn't make any difference. On Fri, 16 Aug 2002, Alexander Nicholas Thaler wrote: > No. It may EFFECTIVELY comile as fast, but depending on your machine > speed, that can very GREATLY. > > On Fri, 16 Aug 2002, Jason Gauthier wrote: > > > The compile times are questionable as well: > > > > 10 1,000 line files generally compiles as fast as 1 10,000 line file. > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Alexander Nicholas Thaler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Friday, August 16, 2002 1:50 PM > > To: Pell, Blake B > > Cc: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: Performance Question > > > > > > It should only matter for compile times. If you have a decent compiler > > and linker (ie gmake and gcc) it should optimize the same no matter how > > you have your files organized. > > > > On Fri, 16 Aug 2002, Pell, Blake B wrote: > > > > > This is something I've been curious about but never really been able to > > find an answer for. Would it be better to have extremely large files (like > > act_wiz.c, fight.c pushing 15,000+ lines) or split the code up into smaller > > files (for instance pulling reclass specific code into their own .c files)? > > My question is, does this even matter? > > > > > > Rhien. > > > > > > -- > > > ROM mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > http://www.rom.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rom > > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Alex Thaler > > http://www.columbia.edu/~ant14 ICQ: 24629153 > > > > One thousand monkeys. One thousand MicroVAXes. One thousand years. > > X windows. > > > > > > -- > > ROM mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://www.rom.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rom > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Alex Thaler > http://www.columbia.edu/~ant14 ICQ: 24629153 > > One thousand monkeys. One thousand MicroVAXes. One thousand years. > X windows. > > > -- > ROM mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.rom.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rom > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Alex Thaler http://www.columbia.edu/~ant14 ICQ: 24629153 One thousand monkeys. One thousand MicroVAXes. One thousand years. X windows. -- ROM mailing list [email protected] http://www.rom.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rom
