Re: question about linker

On 05/12/2024 20:21, Scott Lurndal wrote:

Bart <bc@freeuk.com> writes:

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Since converting C code to native code is something that can be done at
10MB/sec per core. Is your final binary 36GB?

 Of course not, I posted the size, it's 7MB.

You posted a 7MB size (and an 8MB one), in a post about hypothetical 1-10GB executables. I didn't realise it was the size of the project that took 1 hour of CPU time to build.
So that's about 2KB/second of CPU time.
This is about half the speed of my first assembler, that ran on a 2.5MHz 8-bit processor in 16KB, which could translate assembly to binary at about 4KB/second.
I can't say I'm impressed. Oh, I forgot: you're using 6 cores, to effectively achieve 9KB/second. I reckon you could write the output to floppy disk, without impacting those 13 minutes too much! Somebody would have to keep switching disks though.