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Re: GCC 3.5 Status (2004-08-29)
On Aug 29, 2004, at 5:53 PM, Mark Mitchell wrote:
Maintaining compilation speed was a precondition set by the SC for the
tree-ssa merge. If that condition was not met, then perhaps the merge
should not have been performed. The fact that it was probably
indicates that people weren't too worried about these compile-time
effects.
There has been a couple of cases where compile time has actually speed
up
a huge amount even with the new optimization so it was no a clear cut if
we should not merge or not.
I should note that the bootstrap time feels longer but I could be
imagining
things.
-- Pinski