Re: Compile time of C++ vs C#

Marco van de Voort <marcov@stack.nl>
Wed, 2 Sep 2009 09:49:04 +0000 (UTC)

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From: Marco van de Voort <marcov@stack.nl>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2009 09:49:04 +0000 (UTC)
Organization: Stack Usenet News Service
References: 09-09-009
Keywords: C++, performance
Posted-Date: 02 Sep 2009 23:25:09 EDT

On 2009-09-01, Shirsoft <shirsoft@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am curious to know why C# code much faster than a similar sized C++
> code. How does MSIL help? Does having a common base class like object
> help in reducing compile times?


Which C++ compiler? Does it support precompiled headers?


> [The optimizer is usually the slowest part of a compiler and I would guess that
> MSIL offers fewer opportunities than native code. -John]


I'd bet on not parsing include files and not restarting the compiler binary
for every compilation unit.


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