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Re: PATCH: Two C regressions in GCC 3.4.
- From: law at redhat dot com
- To: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm at polyomino dot org dot uk>
- Cc: Laurent GUERBY <laurent at guerby dot net>, gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 15:34:52 -0700
- Subject: Re: PATCH: Two C regressions in GCC 3.4.
- Reply-to: law at redhat dot com
In message <Pine.LNX.4.58.0403182207190.1628@digraph.polyomino.org.uk>, "Joseph
S. Myers" writes:
>Or we could make the compiler ten times faster (I think a build cycle of
>at most a day would be wanted for such a tester to be particularly
>useful). Mike Stump gave a 36 times faster goal in
><http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2002-08/msg00519.html>.
Or get a bigger machine for the tester :-0 My cluster certainly isn't
made out of the latest and greatest hardware. There's probably more
parallelism in the build proces that I could exploit as well. But what
I've got is simple and works ;-)
>(I don't think Moore's law will help here; bootstrap/test times seem to
>keep pace with it through additional languages, libraries, features and
>tests, so I suspect increasing numbers and size of packages in
>distributions can do the same.)
Agreed.
jeff