On Tue, 5 Jan 1999, Ignatios Souvatzis wrote:

: > There is nothing in libcc1 that as or ld will use.  The only page sharing 
: > would be between cc1 cc1plus f771 and cc1obj, which are never used by the 
: > simultaneously for a single compilation.   Hence this has nothing to do 
: > with making -pipe work more efficiently.
: 
: it will make -j$N jobs (parallel compiling) share more, potentially. 

Um, only if you're mixing languages - and the only ones in our tree are C,
ObjC (very minimal), and C++ (groff).  We don't really have enough source
in-tree to say that a shared libcc1 helps with -j much if at all.

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