Re: Suggestions for improving gcc 3.2 compilation speed?

[Lars Segerlund <lars dot segerlund at comsys dot se>]

 I like gcc, however I think this pinpoints the problem of using it for 
real software developement, it's painfully slow and getting slower all 
the time. When I get some time I will also look if I can give some help 
in making it faster, however this is a problem since people are starting 
to abandon gcc, ( for everything exept trivial stuff ).

 Gcc would need a 50 % speedup in this case to be deemed usefull, and I 
believe a speedup of 100%-200% would be necessary in order to put it on 
par with most other compilers.

 I just want to point out this in retrospect of the previous discussion 
about compilation speed as a real issue, not to restart the debate.

 / Lars Segerlund.

Russell Shaw wrote:
> Anna Fowles-Winkler wrote:
>
> > Hi Kaveh,
> >
> > I ran gcc 3.2.2 with the patch, and it took 15 minutes instead of 18 
> > minutes to compile my application.  That's a slight improvement, but I 
> > guess my ideal running time would be closer to 10 minutes.  Am I 
> > dreaming? :)
> >
> > I think at this point I'm either going to go back to 2.95.3, or 
> > consider a commercial compiler.
> >
> > Thanks to everyone for your support.
>
>
> Your build-system may be very slow if it uses 'make' and a lot of shell
> scripts and does a lot of file/header searching.
>
> Try upgrading to scsi HDDs or try a better/faster build method (jam):
>   http://www.perforce.com/jam/jam.html