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> As for the speed boost, it can be felt on large compiles. And
> when /tmp runs low, it allows one to compile very large files,
> which would fail without -pipe (say, C files filled with huge
> data arrays coded for a certain competition ...)
I don't think Allegro contains such very large files. Here are the results
of 3 tries on my system:
- no pipe: 4:52:57 97% CPU on average,
- pipe: 4:45:98 99% CPU on average,
- pipe: 4:52:15 98% CPU on average.
Very close. Anyway, aren't pipes a defining feature of Unix ? So let's go.
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Eric Botcazou
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