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


  In message <856548000.995904843@[192.168.0.106]>you write:
  > >   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.
Certainly all the code is in there, but it's not being used (actually, I
think their team mentioned one case where it is used, but it was fairly minor).

jeff


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