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Re: GCC still getting a lot slower


Diego Novillo wrote:
>On Tue, 31 Dec 2002, Paolo Carlini wrote:
>
>> Neil Booth wrote:
>> 
>> >Any idea what killed GCC bootstrap time in Mid-Dec?
>> >
>> Wild guess
>> 
>>    http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-cvs/2002-12/msg00481.html
>> 
>>Very likely.  Bootstrap times for C and Fortran went from 2,000
>secs on 2002-12-16 to 2,500 secs on 2002-12-17 (25% slowdown).
>
>http://people.redhat.com/dnovillo/spec95/gcc/gcc-stats.html

Frankly, I don't think we should look at bootstrap time.  A number of 
the largest changes in B-I-B were necessary build process changes, which 
are quite likely to slow down the build *of* the compiler, but not the 
performance of the compiler.  Or, in other words, "so what?". ;-)

Can we test compile time change of some *fixed* piece of code, perhaps?

--Nathanael


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