From: gah@ugcs.caltech.edu   
      
   wenhelt@free.fr wrote:   
      
   > Although compiler code for supercomputing is commonplace,   
   > supercomputing FOR compilers is coming.   
      
   > For an EDA (Electronic Design Automation) project, we are facing   
   > symbol tables over 500 million entries.   
      
   I believe one of the traditional reasons for separate compilation of   
   subroutines and linking is that it reduces the number of symbols that   
   you have to keep track of at one time.  Only one routine worth of   
   internal symbols for the compiler.  All the external symbols for the   
   linker.  Do you mean 5e8 symbols for one subroutine?   
      
   -- glen   
      
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