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Re: build and install of egcs-1.0.3a
- To: Joe Buck <jbuck at synopsys dot com>
- Subject: Re: build and install of egcs-1.0.3a
- From: Robley Hall <rrh at dial dot pipex dot com>
- Date: 06 Jun 1998 02:27:01 +0000
- Cc: egcs at cygnus dot com
- References: <199806060022.RAA07394@atrus.synopsys.com>
Joe Buck <jbuck@Synopsys.COM> writes:
>
> The example you show is of two extremely small programs. I believe
> the reason you are seeing a size increase is because there is more
> stuff in libgcc.a, which is statically linked.
>
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>
> Your data shows an approximate 20K size increase for both programs.
> I believe that this is a fixed cost, roughly (meaning it's not going
> to be significant for large programs) and that it comes from libgcc.a,
> though I'm not certain.
>
> As for 39 sec vs 32 sec, we'd need to see more data, like the most
> significant datum of all: which bzip2 executable runs faster and by
> how much? (I'm not expecting much for egcs at this stage, though
> improvements being worked on should be significant).
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Joe,
agreed on all your points. The key question: is this sort
of information relevant to what you are doing, and/or
is there a standard sort of form that you would like to
see it in.
This sort of thing is probably the only way I could contribute
to the egcs effort for the moment, and I'm happy to do it if
there is any benefit.
The size and time increases that I have seen are not critical
to what I am doing on this system, so I will carry on with
egcs regardless.
Regards,
Robley Hall