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Re: Cleanups for the m68k backend
On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 09:59:03AM -0400, Hans-Peter Nilsson wrote:
> 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?
Slow building of binutils I could live with since that I would only rarely
do. No, I meant BFD-based binutils are slow compared with non-BFD versions.
However, I noticed this with a now outdated BFD-binutils version (2.9?).
Building time eg. of GCC doubled when using as/ld from 2.9. I reverted to
my old toolchain. Maybe a newer binutils version is faster than the old
version that I used but I doubt that. Newer version means more features
but often it also means slower.
Gunther