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[Brian Sidebotham <brian.sidebotham@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 22 October 2014 14:16, Benoît Roehr <benoit.roehr.ec@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> It takes about 20 seconds for me.
>
> Ubuntu 14.04
> i7 @ 2.2GHz
>
> I've read somewhere linux is better for compiling because of something
> called pipelining. It is present on linux (or better implemented) but not on
> windows.
>

The compilers turn source code into pre-processed source code, then
into assembler which is then assembled to get the object code. This
used to use a temporary file at each intermediary stage, however these
days I'm sure the -pipe option is enabled on all platforms for gcc and
uses pipes instead of temporary files.

So I don't think that's any longer a difference between Windows and Linux.

Best Regards,

Brian.