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




--On Monday, July 23, 2001 1:53 PM -0600 law@redhat.com wrote:

>   In message <877kwzearp.fsf@cgsoftware.com>you write:
>   > Past that, e very other compiler i know of started using region based
> compi   > ling
>   > (HP's ELCOR, SGI Pro64, SGI's mipspro, Intel's compilers,
>   > IBM's compilers, etc) in order to cut down the compile time while
> speeding   > up the code.
> I know that SGI's compiler doesn't actually do region stuff.  They ran
> into a rats nest of problems with the actual implementation.
>

Err, the source code for pro64 has it in there, and at O2 and O3, it 
certainly goes through that code, and appears to create regions/use them.

Maybe this wasn't done in time for mipspro.

> jeff



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