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Re: GCC still getting a lot slower
- From: prj at po dot cwru dot edu (Paul Jarc)
- To: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2002 16:47:22 -0500
- Subject: Re: GCC still getting a lot slower
- Organization: What did you have in mind? A short, blunt, human pyramid?
- References: <20021231214116.GA1953@doctormoo>
Nathanael Nerode <neroden@twcny.rr.com> wrote:
> Frankly, I don't think we should look at bootstrap time. A number of
> the largest changes in B-I-B were necessary build process changes, which
> are quite likely to slow down the build *of* the compiler, but not the
> performance of the compiler. Or, in other words, "so what?". ;-)
As someone else noted a while ago, bootstrap times are important
because changes are tested by bootstrapping. So slow bootstraps slow
down all other progress.
> Can we test compile time change of some *fixed* piece of code, perhaps?
That would also be useful, in its own way.
paul