LOL

Posted Jan 16, 2009 18:04 UTC (Fri) by jch (guest, #51929)
In reply to: LOL by dfsmith
Parent article: Quotes of the week

Very little. Parsing itself takes a small fraction of the time, and ifdefed-away sections are discarded by the preprocessor very early, and never actually parsed.

What takes time is the optimiser, which takes ages in recent GCC releases.