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Re: GCC 3.3 compile speed regression - AN ANSWER
- From: <tm_gccmail at mail dot kloo dot net>
- To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds at transmeta dot com>
- Cc: Jan Hubicka <jh at suse dot cz>, jsm28 at cam dot ac dot uk, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 10:58:14 -0800 (PST)
- Subject: Re: GCC 3.3 compile speed regression - AN ANSWER
On Wed, 12 Feb 2003, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Quite the reverse, in fact. I think the "10% worse" on one thing is
> totally negligible since it doesn't even seem to be across the board.
> But the 4-6x slower compiles _aren't_, which is why the compile speed
> thing comes up.
>
> Linus
People are aware of the problem, and there have been many patches in the
past two months to improve the situation.
You may want to look at the following messages:
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2003-01/msg02489.html
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2003-01/msg00100.html
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2003-01/msg00237.html
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2003-01/msg00279.html
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2003-01/msg00984.html
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2003-01/msg01644.html
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2003-01/msg00752.html
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2003-01/msg02451.html
...
There's more activity but those are the ones I found by trivially
searching.
Toshi