Dale Johannesen - Re: Link-time optimzation (original) (raw)

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Richard Earnshaw wrote:

We spend a lot of time printing out the results of compilation as
assembly language, only to have to parse it all again in the assembler.

I never like arguments which have loaded words like "lot" without quantification. Just how long is spent in this step, is it really significant?