Re: Compilation time (was Re: GCC 3.3)

[Paul Koning <pkoning at equallogic dot com>]

>>>>> "Diego" == Diego Novillo <dnovillo@redhat.com> writes:

 Diego> On Wed, 2003-04-30 at 14:28, Phil Edwards wrote:
 >> Somewhat re-ording your suggestions.
 >> 
 >> 
 >> On Tue, Apr 29, 2003 at 05:30:22PM -0700, Matt Austern wrote: >
 >> 1. Compile an unchanging piece of source code.
 >> 
 >> Anything in particular?  I don't much care what, but its build
 >> time multiplied by 5 needs to not be hellishly long.  (The machine
 >> is used for other things; and of course is can't be doing any of
 >> those other things while these tests are running.)
 >> 
 Diego> I collected a bunch of .i files from the C front end and use
 Diego> that as my unchanging code base.  It shouldn't take long to
 Diego> compile this 2-3 times to get a good average.

I think you need to start from c or c++ files, because that's the real
world scenario and that's what matters to people who are using gcc.

      paul