Re: [Sdcc-user] Speed

[Joris v. d. S. <vd...@pu...>]

> I'm using SDCC with WIN95 on a P166. The compiler works fine, but even when
> SDCC has nothing to compile (just when I type "sdcc" at the DOS-prompt) it
> takes about a minute until SDCC shows his command-line options. Compiling
> source code with approximately 2000 lines takes the same time.
> Is this normal or due to misconfiguration, or is my computer to slow? I have
> tried both Borland and CYGWIN binaries, there seems to be no difference.

There is (was?) a bug in SDCC that caused it to leave temporary files in
the /windows/temp directory. Take a look there and you might find hundreds
of files. Deleting those files will speeds things up to normal times of one
or two seconds. You might want to insert a delete command in your makefile
to automatically clean up the temporary directory each time you run SDCC.

Regards,
Joris