Compiler question
 

does anyone have any experience with a faster C/C++ compiler for linux...gcc is somewhat pokey...

try going to www.sourceforge.net and do a search on compiler. it came up with lots of results you can look/try out. i stick with gcc, works for me like a charm and i don't think its usually the compiler, more the machine your compiling on.

thanks for the tip...i'll check it out; however, for the record i'm trying to test and tweak a wxWindows project on a dual boot box (98se/Linux). it takes more than twice as long for the freakin' thing to compile with gcc 3.1 compared to VC++. This last run (still running) is at 37 minutes, and the project isn't really THAT big...you can imagine that recompiling and testing is unbearable...

it must be your machine, i have an Athlon XP 1600+ and gcc can build itself (bootstrap) in about 20 minutes. glibc built in 32.

verigoth

gcc 3.1 is known to take longer to compile stuff, but i've heard it produces faster code than gcc 2.95.x

also, gcc 3.1 is more standards compliant

however, u could always try icc (from intel). i've heard it produces very fast code in some cases, but i have no idea about the compile times