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Re: --enable-intermodule bootstrap


On Mon, 8 Nov 2004 16:08:30 +0100 (CET), Richard Guenther
<rguenth@tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de> wrote:
> On Mon, 8 Nov 2004, Andrew Pinski wrote:
> >
> > On Nov 8, 2004, at 9:15 AM, Richard Guenther wrote:
> >
> > > Hi!
> > >
> > > Anyone tried --enable-intermodule bootstrap recently?  My
> > > bootstrap is still doing stage1 libbackend, now for over an
> > > hour (regular bootstrap completes in less than half an hour).
> > > Is this known and as such not recommended to do intermodule
> > > bootstraps (they are undocumented, after all)?
> > >
> > > Or will this eventually be addressed?
> >
> >
> > Yes this is normal as we check the prototypes across the
> > translational unit.  I posted a patch to speed it up but
> > it has not been approved yet.
> >
> > Patch here: <http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2004-10/msg01479.html>.
> 
> Works like a charm - you should ping the patch in question, it for sure
> got lost by now.

But we don't gain much - only about 1.5% in C++ tramp3d compilation. 
I guess partly because the frontends are not inter-moduled.

Richard.


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