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Re: gcc 3.5 integration branch proposal
Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
espie@quatramaran.ens.fr (Marc Espie) writes:
| I do see the benefits, sure (I love the new preprocessor, except for the
| -traditional bug, and I really need a standard C++ compiler), but updating
| from 2.8.1 to 2.95 slowed our compiles by ~30%, and the on-going 2.95 to
| 3.3.2 update is slowing them by 30% more. Heck, we do have
| architectures that are NOT going to switch because the compile are
| really too slow now. There's even some chance only sparc64 will switch
| because 2.95 was completely crap on sparc64 (understandably so).
We should probably require developers to use slow machines with small
rams. Semi ;-)
There's no harm in that. I have a port of GCC 3.3.3 running on a 200MHz
StrongARM that takes over 6 minutes to compile the following:
#include <iostream>
int main (void)
{
std::cout << "Hello World" << std::endl;
return 0;
}
GCC 2.95.4 compiled the same application on the same hardware in around
20-30 seconds.
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