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Re: Patch to allow Ada to work with tree-ssa
On Thu, 2004-06-24 at 11:14, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Jun 2004, Geoffrey Keating wrote:
>
> > larger. In addition, programs have gotten larger, which soaks up much
> > of the CPU speed improvement.
>
> As illustrated by the growth of GCC itself. My bootstrap plus testsuite
> run times on constant hardware have gone from under one hour a bit over
> three years ago to over three hours now (and this is artificially low
> because of the temporary disabling of Ada). Much of this is the growth in
> GCC itself, but a significant part must be GCC slowing down.
Measurements I took last night show that bootstrap times on
i386-netbsdelf have increased by 7% in the last 40 days alone. That's
on top of the increase in time due to introduction of tree-ssa.
That's a rate of decline that even Moore's law can't keep up with.
R.