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Re: Cleanups for the m68k backend
- From: Hans-Peter Nilsson <hp at bitrange dot com>
- To: Gunther Nikl <gni at gecko dot de>
- Cc: Marc Espie <espie at quatramaran dot ens dot fr>, <bernie at develer dot com>, <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2003 09:59:03 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: Cleanups for the m68k backend
On Wed, 9 Jul 2003, Gunther Nikl wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 12:37:09AM +0200, Marc Espie wrote:
> > We also have toolchain speed issues. Switching to a brand new toolchain
> > (and a slow one) is a hard decision, if it means having build time jump
> > from 3 days to one week on a m68k machine.
>
> Thats what I have observed too: the overhead of BFD-based binutils
> is very large :-/ For an already slow platform compared to current
> standards thats a pain.
Do you mean overhead to build or that recent gas and ld are
slow? If the latter, follow-up to binutils@sources.redhat.com
with your observations, please.
brgds, H-P