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Re: Suggestions for improving gcc 3.2 compilation speed?
- From: Matt Austern <austern at apple dot com>
- To: Anna Fowles-Winkler <awinkler at maad dot com>
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 15:09:46 -0800
- Subject: Re: Suggestions for improving gcc 3.2 compilation speed?
On Thursday, February 27, 2003, at 03:05 PM, Anna Fowles-Winkler wrote:
Hi,
I've been running gcc 2.95.3 on a 1Ghz/512MB RAM PC running RedHat
7.2. It takes 20 minutes to compile my application, so I recently got
a new computer to reduce the time I wait for compiles. This new
computer is a 2.8 Ghz CPU/1GB RAM running RedHat 8.0. Since RedHat
8.0 comes with gcc 3.2 I figured I'd give it a try. It takes 20
minutes to compile my application. (!!!)
I'm a little frustrated that the compilation speed is so slow with gcc
3.2, especially since this is a commercial application (i.e., this is
my job). Is there anything I can do to improve the compilation speed?
Will newer gcc releases be as fast as gcc 2.95.3 (or faster)? Or is
my best bet to stick with 2.95.3?
We're doing a lot of work on improving compilation speed for 3.3 and
3.4. We could always use more help, though!
--Matt