[pypy-dev] windows buildbot
René Dudfield
renesd at gmail.com
Wed Jan 21 00:43:42 CET 2009
hi,
I guess you already know that newer versions of gcc are slower with
larger files. It can be faster even for gcc to split up files into
smaller pieces.
cheers,
On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 10:40 AM, Amaury Forgeot d'Arc
<amauryfa at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 00:17, Maciej Fijalkowski <fijall at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I just triggered translation here:
>>
>> http://codespeak.net:8099/builders/pypy-c-lib-python-win-32/builds/23/steps/translate/logs/stdio
>>
>> and I noticed that there are 48 implement files. Is it because files
>> are split to smaller chunks for some reason,
>> or something went wrong along the lines?
>
> It's normal if you consider this code in translator/c/genc.py:
>
> SPLIT_CRITERIA = 65535 # support VC++ 7.2
> [...]
> if py.std.sys.platform != "win32":
> split_criteria_big = SPLIT_CRITERIA * 4
> else:
> split_criteria_big = SPLIT_CRITERIA
>
>
> Old versions of Visual Studio had problems with large files.
> Even today, debug information is wrong when lineno>65536.
>
> --
> Amaury Forgeot d'Arc
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