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Re: gcc and compiling speed
- From: Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr at integrable-solutions dot net>
- To: Theo de Raadt <deraadt at cvs dot openbsd dot org>
- Cc: Zack Weinberg <zack at codesourcery dot com>, Andrew Pinski <pinskia at physics dot uc dot edu>, tech at openbsd dot org, Marc Espie <espie at quatramaran dot ens dot fr>, "gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org List" <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: 01 Mar 2004 04:50:48 +0100
- Subject: Re: gcc and compiling speed
- Organization: Integrable Solutions
- References: <200403010349.i213nxpD008197@cvs.openbsd.org>
Theo de Raadt <deraadt@cvs.openbsd.org> writes:
| > Theo de Raadt <deraadt@cvs.openbsd.org> writes:
| >
| > >> Marc,
| > >> Now I know you have been asked before every time you bring up on the
| > >> GCC's mailing list about a set of preprocessed source for openbsd so
| > >> that the speed of GCC will improve.
| > >
| > > How will this improve the speed of gcc?
| >
| > If Marc (or anyone) provides us with a test case for the performance
| > regression - for instance, the set of files produced by running gcc -E
| > over all of the openbsd kernel, which is what Andrew meant - then we
| > can find out why the compiler is slower, and fix it.
| >
| > We do have our own test cases for compile time, and they have been
| > being fixed (mostly by Jan Hubicka) but we don't know that this will
| > help you.
|
| How big is your mailbox?
Well, there is a central database for GCC
http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/
that saves people from getting huge testcases directly in their
mailboxes.
I have no idea how large is GCC's bugzilla harddrive though
-- Gaby