Re: A quick summary of gcc compilation speed from a political point of view

[Jan Hubicka <hubicka at ucw dot cz>]

To correct myself,
> > >From the little discussion that I inadvertently started, I believe I can
> > start to draw conclusions.
> > 
> > There is a large number of people who apparently do not care at all that
> > gcc is getting slower, because they say that we can buy faster hardware,
> > and gcc is not getting slower THAT fast.
> > 
> > If that's the consensus, it would be a good idea to seriously amend the
> > GCC description.
> Mark,
> 
> it is definitly not concensus and what I wanted to point out by my
> little kernel compilation benchmark is that the situation is now taken
> quite seriously and the compiler is _not_ getting slower with each
> release anymore. All GCC developers noticed that compile time
> performance is important and it is now common to provide compilation
> time infromation for each change and try hard to minimize the compile
			^ this is not quite the case, we do it only for
			changes that looks dangerous, like adding new
			pass or so.    Still things may get missed so
			it can be nice to good periodic tester doing
			usefull testing on compile time perofmrance.
			Our SPEC testers are not as good on it as it can
			be.
Honza