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Re: GCC 4.1: Buildable on GHz machines only?

From: Joe Buck <Joe dot Buck at synopsys dot COM>
To: Jason Thorpe <thorpej at shagadelic dot org>
Cc: David Edelsohn <dje at watson dot ibm dot com>,Matt Thomas <matt at 3am-software dot com>,Gcc Mailing List <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 09:43:56 -0700
Subject: Re: GCC 4.1: Buildable on GHz machines only?
References: <JCEPIPKHCJGDMPOHDOIGIECJCOAA.gary@intrepid.com> <426F2D5D.7010305@3am-software.com> <200504271441.j3REfND27584@makai.watson.ibm.com> <43D7D183-F9AF-4728-8564-8A6C74673E3E@shagadelic.org>

On Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 10:05:13PM -0700, Jason Thorpe wrote:
> Except it's not just bootstrapping GCC.  It's everything.  When the  
> NetBSD Project switched from 2.95.3 to 3.3, we had a noticeably  
> increase in time to do the "daily" builds because the 3.3 compiler  
> was so much slower at compiling the same OS source code.  And we're  
> talking almost entirely C code, here.

We are well aware that 3.3 was slower, but we believe that 4.0 is in
many cases significantly faster than 3.3.  Try it and see what you think.

References:
- RE: GCC 4.1: Buildable on GHz machines only?
  - From: Gary Funck
- Re: GCC 4.1: Buildable on GHz machines only?
  - From: Matt Thomas
- Re: GCC 4.1: Buildable on GHz machines only?
  - From: David Edelsohn
- Re: GCC 4.1: Buildable on GHz machines only?
  - From: Jason Thorpe

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