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degger@fhm.edu said:
>  Interestingly -pipe doesn't give any measurable performance increases
> or even leads to a minor decrease in compile speed in my latest tests
> on bigger projects like the linux kernel or GIMP.

I believe that newer versions of GCC have a builtin preprocessor, and -pipe 
forces them to use the old, slower, external cpp. 

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dwmw2


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