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Re: Threading the compiler

From: Sohail Somani <sohail at taggedtype dot net>
To: Geert Bosch <bosch at adacore dot com>
Cc: GCC Development <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2006 22:25:10 -0800
Subject: Re: Threading the compiler
References: <D5E71E91-8A8D-4472-95DD-8C03C1E218C8@apple.com> <BC1CEB9F-ED21-49B1-AE64-D5BD0D0EA251@adacore.com>

On Sat, 2006-11-11 at 00:08 -0500, Geert Bosch wrote:
> Most of my compilations (on Linux, at least) use close
> to 100% of CPU. Adding more overhead for threading and
> communication/synchronization can only hurt.

In my daily work, I take processes that run 100% and make them use 100%
in less time. I think it sounds like (from what you say) that gcc needs
to be optimized before parallelized?

In some cases this might be easier.

Sohail

References:
- Threading the compiler
  - From: Mike Stump
- Re: Threading the compiler
  - From: Geert Bosch

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