Re: Slow compilation

[Laurence Finston]

Thanks for your response.
Do you have any suggestions for fixing the problem?  The other files
compile reasonably fast, so I don't think it's the compilation environment
that's causing the problem.

Laurence

On Fri, 20 Aug 2004, David Fletcher wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> >>>>> "LF" == Laurence Finston <address@hidden> writes:
>
> LF> ... while compilation is now somewhat faster, it still takes about
> LF> 5 minutes on a fast workstation with two processors and not much
> LF> competition from other users at present.
>
> LF> My parser now contains 508 rules and 755 states...
>
> LF> Is it reasonable that compilation should take so long?
>
> Sounds like there's something odd happening.

>
> I have a grammar that has 638 rules.  When processed with an older
> version of bison, a parser with 1228 states is produced.  To run
> bison, compile the code using g++, and link takes about 5 or 6
> seconds.
>
> This is on a 2-year old dual-processor Athlon 2800 machine with 1GB of
> RAM, running SuSE linux 9.1.
>
> HTH
>
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