Assembler considered cheap

Posted Apr 15, 2010 6:04 UTC (Thu) by corbet (editor, #1)
In reply to: Assembler considered cheap by ncm
Parent article: Dispatches from the compiler front

They've measured the assembly phase at about 20% of the total. It's not clear to me how much of that they can avoid with the MC scheme, but their understanding of the costs are not based on just guessing.