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From: George Neuner <gneuner2@comcast.net>
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Subject: Re: Alternative C compilers on x86_64 Linux?
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On Tue, 27 Sep 2016 05:40:55 -0000 (UTC), arnold@skeeve.com (Aharon
Robbins) wrote:

>I develop locally. My system is Ubuntu 16.04 with gcc 5.4 on a Skylake
>Core i5. /proc/cpuinfo claims 4 CPUs, so there are likely two hyperthreaded
>physical cores and there's plenty of RAM.

The i5 has 4 non-HT cores.


>The time difference between using tcc on the one hand and GCC + make
>-j on the other is quite noticeable; tcc + make -j is even faster.
>Doing many builds an hour can happen, and a faster compiler saves me time.
>tcc also makes a VERY noticeable difference in the time it takes
>to run configure.

If you really have plenty of RAM, why not create a ramdisk?   Or put
in an SSD for the tmp filesystem?


>Since I originally posted, someone suggested that I just fix tcc on
>my own. I was able to do this with less than 2 hours work so now
>I'm back to being fat, dumb and happy. :-)

As long as you don't expect the same level of optimization.  TCC is
nice for quick development turn-around, but it doesn't produce the
fastest code.

George