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Re: C++ compile-time regressions (was: GCC 3.0.1 Status Report)


Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at> writes:

> On Wed, 18 Jul 2001, Mark Mitchell wrote:
>> I know we have already made some pretty significant bug-fixes, so I'm
>> confident that the 3.0.1 release will be useful to current 3.0 users.
>> It would be nice to address some of the lingering issues relative to
>> GCC 2.95 that are preventing people from upgrading.
> 
> Well, here I have to step up again, I'm afraid.  If you look at
>   http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2001-07/msg01376.html
> you'll see that C++ projects heavily relying on STL apparently
> simply cannot use GCC 3.0.
> 
>                    GCC 2.95                         GCC 3.0
>           Compile time    Binary size      Compile time   Binary Size
>   -O0             6:19    3915128                  8:20   4159780
>   -O1             4:20    4203480                 11:40   4829732
>   -O2             5:56    4209368                 14:09   4862532
>   -O3             5:47    4221464                 32:04   6166052
> 
> This is not (only) an inlining problem it seems?

We *still* haven't changed the inlining default.

> 
> And, as shown by the table in my original message, the generated code
> is also significantly slower, probably because of the ADDRESSOF issue
> which still has not been resolved yet, AFAIK?


> 
> Gerald
> -- 
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