Re: [GCC 3.0] Bad regression, binary size

[Phil Edwards <pedwards at disaster dot jaj dot com>]

On Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 02:54:21PM -0700, Justin Guyett wrote:
> I dunno about the 1minute+ helloworld compile time someone just suggested,
> but this is disturbing:
> (v2.95) g++ -o hello hello.cc  0.15s user 0.03s system 96% cpu 0.186 total
> (v3.0)  g++ -o hello hello.cc  2.04s user 0.06s system 99% cpu 2.102 total
> 
> if there's a 2 second loading overhead for g++v3, that's 2 seconds * (#
> files) which can be quite a lot in large trees.  Is this simply from
> linking in the new libstdc++?

Parsing the libstdc++ headers takes time, mostly because nearly all the
code is in the headers.  Once we have 'export' this should be better.


Phil

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