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Re: gcc compile-time performance
- From: Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr at codesourcery dot com>
- To: "David S. Miller" <davem at redhat dot com>
- Cc: dewar at gnat dot com, drow at mvista dot com, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, law at redhat dot com, mark at codesourcery dot com, scott at coyotegulch dot com
- Date: 19 May 2002 12:34:10 +0200
- Subject: Re: gcc compile-time performance
- Organization: CodeSourcery, LLC
- References: <20020519051638.D7B18F28CC@nile.gnat.com> <20020518.222026.103991228.davem@redhat.com>
"David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com> writes:
[...]
| Running Solaris, the same bootstrap (and it is an equivalently
| targetted bootstrap doing the same amount of multilibbing) takes more
| than a day on a 32 processor Solaris machine with several gigabytes of
| ram.
I can second this. That is one of the reasons (another was frequent
bootstrap failure) I totally gave up using the idle SPARC cycles here
building the compiler.
-- Gaby