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Re: Cleanups for the m68k backend
On Wednesday 09 July 2003 15:18, Gunther Nikl wrote:
> > We also have toolchain speed issues. Switching to a brand new
> > toolchain (and a slow one) is a hard decision, if it means having
> > build time jump from 3 days to one week on a m68k machine.
>
> Thats what I have observed too: the overhead of BFD-based binutils
> is very large :-/ For an already slow platform compared to current
> standards thats a pain.
How is that? On modern platforms, the time spent by as + ld is negligible
when compared with cc1. How come the same proportion doesn't hold for slower
machines?
Could it be a C library issue? I expect as and ld to be making much more I/O
than gcc, therefore inefficient libc or syscalls would make them crawl.
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