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Re: gcc compile-time performance


On Sat, May 18, 2002 at 09:58:10PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
>    From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com>
>    Date: Sat, 18 May 2002 16:09:07 -0400
>    
>    (Although fixing Solaris [with a hammer] might still get us more
>    advantage than fixing GCC...)
> 
> You might want to consider running Linux on your Sparc build
> systems if that is a possibility.  Just plain full GCC bootstraps
> run several orders of magnitude faster on my Linux boxes than
> identically configured hardware running Solaris (and indeed, even
> against more beefy Solaris systems).
> 

Unfortunately, it isn't - I assure you, I've considered it.  We're
building Solaris host applications and cross-compiling to Solaris is
likely to be more trouble than it is worth.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz                           Carnegie Mellon University
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer


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