Re: Removing xrdb for 10% startup win?

[Sander Vesik <sander_traveling yahoo co uk>]

--- John Rice <John Rice Sun COM> wrote:

> Lorenzo - thanks for the pointer.
> 
> Padraig Obriain had a look into using mcpp on Solaris, but in his 
> digging he trussed xrdb and found that on Solaris 10 its not exec'ing 
> the compiler to do the preprocessing. Someone appears to have already 
> hacked up a more light weight preprocessor for just such an occasion 
> [its located at /usr/bin/cpp, not /usr/sfw/bin/cpp]. So use of mcpp is 
> not required on Solaris.
> 

I'm not sure how "Someone appears to have already hacked up" enters the picture, 
but Solaris has had a standalone, fairly lightweight preprocessor shipping for 
ages. The "C" preprocessor is used by a bunch of languages besides "C" so when Sun
unbundled the rest of the compiler at some time in the depths of history one of the
result was a standalone preprocessor.

[if somebody knows the situtaion pre-unbundling, feel free to correct me]

> JR
 

Sander

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