Re: Removing xrdb for 10% startup win?

[Alan Cox <alan lxorguk ukuu org uk>]

> $ ls -l /usr/libexec/gcc/i386-redhat-linux/4.0.1/cc1
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 4576236 Aug 26 22:34 /usr/libexec/gcc/i386-redhat-linux/4.0.1/cc1
> 
> Taking a 1-2 seconds to read a binary of that size isn't great, and 
> likely object-file reordering could improve things quite a bit, but it
> should be more believable than for a 90k executable.

decus cpp is good enough in my experience to process these files, about
40K and public domain. Its ANSI-ish but not strict and perfect in all
respects. The ACK pre-processor is also now free and might be useful but
does rather more than would be wanted.

Alan