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Re: Addition to GCC 3.0 release criteria
- To: sponk at my-Deja dot com
- Subject: Re: Addition to GCC 3.0 release criteria
- From: Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>
- Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 08:05:48 -0700
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Organization: CodeSourcery, LLC
- References: <DFFABCPDAPMGHAAA@my-deja.com>
>>>>> "Dave" == Dave Moore <sponk@my-Deja.com> writes:
Dave> Hello,
Dave> It has been my experience that G++ is severely lacking when
Dave> it comes to optimizing highly templated code. The compile
Dave> jobs tend to run forever, and often crash because they use
Dave> up all of the physical and virtual memory. Since extensive
Dave> use of templating is a powerful tool for improving the
Dave> run-time performance of C++ code, it seems that it would be
Dave> worthwhile to improve the compile-time performance of G++
Dave> when optimizing templated code.
That is precisely why POOMA II was chosen as the application
benchmark. Trust me -- if we can get that stuff to compile with
optimization on in a reasonable period of time, we'll have made big
progress. We're getting there.
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Mark Mitchell mark@codesourcery.com
CodeSourcery, LLC http://www.codesourcery.com