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Re: gcc 3.5 integration branch proposal
Eric Botcazou wrote:
Let's face it: from the user viewpoint (all is in the viewpoint :-), during
the past few years, GCC has exchanged a reasonably good code quality coupled
with a good compilation speed for a slightly better code quality and a
catastrophic compilation speed.
^^^^^^^^^^^^
That's unjustified exaggeration. We have a lot of input from customers
on the compilation time issue, and it is true that for a few of them,
the increased compilation time for GCC 3 over GCC 2, which is as much
as a factor of 2 in some cases is definitely significant.
We also have a couple of cases where the memory requirements
skyrocketed, but these were clearly bugs, and we are working on
fixing the bug reports (as Eric knows :-)
Yes, there is a problem, but it does not help for people to yell
catastrophe when it is nowhere *near* that.
Note that for other customers, the increased code quality from GCC 3 is
highly significant, and easily worth any increase in compilation time.