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gcc is a skyscraper

Posted Nov 2, 2007 13:04 UTC (Fri) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: gcc is a skyscraper by jfj
Parent article: A potential competitor for GCC: pcc

LTO definitely isn't a red herring: most programs consist of more than one 
object file and can't easily use --combine (which is far too memory hungry 
to be useful anyway: I tried compiling GCC 4.2.1 with --combine and it ran 
my 1.5Gb Athlon out of memory...)

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