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Re: Compilation time (was Re: GCC 3.3)
- From: Phil Edwards <phil at jaj dot com>
- To: Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr at integrable-solutions dot net>
- Cc: Matt Austern <austern at apple dot com>,Daniel Berlin <dberlin at dberlin dot org>,Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>,"Kaveh R. Ghazi" <ghazi at caip dot rutgers dot edu>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org,bkoz at redhat dot com
- Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 14:28:55 -0400
- Subject: Re: Compilation time (was Re: GCC 3.3)
- References: <EDF03323-7AA2-11D7-AB74-000393B2ABA2@apple.com> <m3llxs955n.fsf@uniton.integrable-solutions.net>
On Wed, Apr 30, 2003 at 02:53:56AM +0200, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
> Matt Austern <austern@apple.com> writes:
> | I've got some specific suggestions, some of which you've probably
> | thought of already:
> |
> | 1. Compile an unchanging piece of source code. Compiler bootstrap
> | is a poor test, for example, because you're never timing the same
> | thing twice.
>
> Completely agreed; although bootstrapping the compiler might give
> some indication on slowdown :-)
That's what I'm starting with, only because I already had some stuff in
place to examine the output (e.g, what kind of bootstrap failure, for the
nag mail).
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