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Re: Profiling gcc itself
On Sun, 20 Nov 2011, Jeff Evarts wrote:
> On Sun, 20 Nov 2011 11:34:27 -0500, Tim Prince wrote:
> > On 11/20/2011 11:10 AM, Basile Starynkevitch wrote:
> >> On Sun, 20 Nov 2011 03:43:20 -0800 Jeff Evarts wrote:
> >>> I posted this question at irc://irc.oftc.net/#gcc and they suggested
> >>> that I pose it here instead.
> >>
> >> I'm not sure the question belongs to gcc@gcc.gnu.org, perhaps gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org might
> >> be a better place.
FWIW, it was I who suggested gcc@ and not gcc-help@ because the
question was with regards to profiling of gcc (not with gcc).
Besides, I vaguely recall (right or wrong) there had been some
related work with reported results, which you perhaps didn't
find using your favorite search engine.
> Apparently my question "Has anyone done X and what were the results"
> has been mysteriously translated into "The GCC compiler is way too
> slow and what are you lazy developers going to do to speed up my
> compiles?!?".
You have yet too few replies to make that conclusion, IMHO.
I'd suggest waiting a few days.
brgds, H-P