From: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: GNAT Codesize
Date: 1996/07/06
Date: 1996-07-06T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <dewar.836709237@schonberg> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 836687839.21932.0@assen.demon.co.uk
John McCabe said
"If you say so - the only efficency advantage I've seen shown is that
it reduces the directory lookup time. This is trivial."
Not at all, directory lookup time can be quite appreciable if you have
very large directories. On some systems, we have found this to be a
significant source of slowing down of compilations.
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Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1996-06-20 0:00 GNAT Codesize Haug Buerger
1996-06-20 0:00 ` James E. Hopper
1996-06-21 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-06-24 0:00 ` John McCabe
1996-06-24 0:00 ` John Howard
1996-06-25 0:00 ` David J. Fiander
1996-06-25 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-06-26 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-06-28 0:00 ` Fergus Henderson
1996-07-01 0:00 ` Michael Feldman
1996-07-03 0:00 ` John McCabe
1996-07-02 0:00 ` John McCabe
1996-07-03 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-07-06 0:00 ` John McCabe
1996-07-06 0:00 ` Michael Feldman
1996-07-06 0:00 ` Robert Dewar [this message]
1996-07-08 0:00 ` Gavin Smyth
1996-06-28 0:00 ` John McCabe
1996-06-28 0:00 ` Fergus Henderson
1996-06-29 0:00 ` John McCabe
1996-07-01 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-07-05 0:00 ` John McCabe
1996-07-05 0:00 ` JP Thornley
1996-06-30 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-07-02 0:00 ` John McCabe
1996-07-03 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-07-03 0:00 ` Question about the need for requeue as described in Rationale James A. Squire
1996-07-05 0:00 ` Bo I. Sanden
1996-07-05 0:00 ` progers
1996-07-06 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-07-04 0:00 ` Samuel Tardieu
1996-07-04 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-07-08 0:00 ` James A. Squire
1996-07-09 0:00 ` progers
1996-07-10 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-07-10 0:00 ` progers
1996-07-08 0:00 ` James A. Squire
1996-07-08 0:00 ` James A. Squire
1996-07-08 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-07-09 0:00 ` Bo I. Sanden
1996-07-09 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-06-21 0:00 ` GNAT Codesize Ralph Paul
1996-06-21 0:00 ` Doug Smith
1996-07-08 0:00 ` Question about the need for requeue as described in Rationale James A. Squire
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