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Re: [RFC] Replace Java with Go in default languages
- From: Eric Botcazou <ebotcazou at adacore dot com>
- To: Jeff Law <law at redhat dot com>
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, Ian Lance Taylor <iant at google dot com>
- Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2013 09:27:21 +0100
- Subject: Re: [RFC] Replace Java with Go in default languages
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> From what I can see, bootstrapping with Ada is slower than bootstapping
> with Java, by around 15%. Again this is on one of my slower boxes, but
> the results clearly show building Ada & its runtime takes a considerable
> amount of time:
>
> default languages: 67 minutes
> default - java: 51 minutes
> default - java + go: 56 minutes
> default - java + ada: 77 minutes
>
> [...]
>
> Hard to justify switching from Java to Ada given those results if one of
> the key goals is to reduce waiting time.
The same discussion took place 3 years ago:
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2010-10/msg00506.html
with the Ada vs Java part:
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2010-11/msg00451.html
including some numbers:
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2010-11/msg00452.html
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Eric Botcazou