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Re:Fare: Metaprogramming from the ground up: avoid C by kinghajj on Tuesday September 16, 2008 @01:33AM (#305471)
Can anyone explain why this takes so long to compile? It doesn't look that complicated.

Edit: I compiled with "gcc -O3 -s", which took 8 minutes, but the executable is only 4784 bytes.

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Re:Fare: Metaprogramming from the ground up: avoid C by fp on Tuesday September 16, 2008 @03:45AM (#305548)
The long compilation time is due to the optimization options. Without optimization it compiles in a few seconds.

Yet, the macros leave plenty of space for optimization. See the size of your executable compared to the unoptimized one of qwph above.

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