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Re:The AMD Radeon Graphics Driver Makes Up Roughly 10.5% of ... by rational_indian on Sunday October 11, 2020 @04:43PM (#24748929)
Are you saying C compilers are O(n)?
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Re:The AMD Radeon Graphics Driver Makes Up Roughly 10.5% of ... by barumi on Sunday October 11, 2020 @05:38PM (#24749310)
> Are you saying C compilers are O(n)?

OP asked for sources that substantiated a technical claim. No assertion was given.

Unless you have a source that either supports or refutes the claim, trying to deflect the question does nothing to address the problem.

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Re:The AMD Radeon Graphics Driver Makes Up Roughly 10.5% of ... by formerly_proven on Sunday October 11, 2020 @04:54PM (#24749009)
I very much expect O(n) compilation of stuff like array declarations, enums, CPP macro definitions and so forth. What else would it be?
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Re:The AMD Radeon Graphics Driver Makes Up Roughly 10.5% of ... by FartyMcFarter on Sunday October 11, 2020 @04:50PM (#24748990)
They may well be, provided one stays away from bad patterns such as humongous complex functions?
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