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Re: GCC 4.1: Buildable on GHz machines only?
Richard Henderson wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 26, 2005 at 10:57:07PM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
>
>>I would expect it to be drastically faster. However this won't show up
>>clearly in the bootstrap. The, bar none, longest bit of the bootstrap
>>is building stage2; and stage1 is always built with optimization off and
>>(IIRC) checking on.
>
>
> Which is why I essentially always supply STAGE1_CFLAGS='-O -g' when
> building on risc machines.
Alas, the --disable-checking and STAGE1_CFLAGS="-O2 -g" (which I was
already doing) only decreased the bootstrap time by 10%. By far, the
longest bit of the bootstrap is building libjava.
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