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Re: GCC still getting a lot slower
- From: prj at po dot cwru dot edu (Paul Jarc)
- To: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2002 16:59:53 -0500
- Subject: Re: GCC still getting a lot slower
- Organization: What did you have in mind? A short, blunt, human pyramid?
- References: <20021231215422.GA2032@doctormoo>
Nathanael Nerode <neroden@twcny.rr.com> wrote:
> Paul Jarc said:
>> Nathanael Nerode <neroden@twcny.rr.com> wrote:
>>> 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?". ;-)
>>
>> As someone else noted a while ago, bootstrap times are important
>> because changes are tested by bootstrapping. So slow bootstraps slow
>> down all other progress.
>
> Yeah. But when I said 'necessary', I meant it; these changes have been
> on the TODO list forever, and they're correctness issues.
I wasn't disputing that - just pointing out that bootstrap times are
indeed important, in answer to your "so what".
paul