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Re: Scheduling x86 dispatch windows
> It would help compilation time a little bit, but generating the
> assembly code and running the entire assembler is a fairly small
> percentage of the overall compilation time--e.g., 3%. It's worth
> doing a fair amount of work to speed up compilation by 3%, but linking
> the assembler into gcc would be an enormous amount of work. I would
Curious -- why do you think it would be that much work?
I admit I haven't looked into gas code, but naively it can't
be all that difficult to e.g. run gas as a thread and
pass the text input through some shared memory buffer?
That would likely not speed up thinks too much, but
it could be a starting for more short cuts.
-Andi