Ticket #688 (new bug) — at Initial Version
Fakecutable creation by pbc_to_exe is critically slow for large PBC files.
Description
The techniques used by pbc_to_exe do not scale well. When the PBC size is larger than about 2MB, both GCC (on all platforms) and MSVC (on Win32) can take up to 2 hours to create a fakecutable; Since Rakudo's perl6.pbc is around 3MB, and since the pbc_to_exe time should be under 1 minute, this situation is causing daily development delays.
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