Re: GCC mini-summit

[Bernd Schmidt <bernds_cb1 at t-online dot de>]

Vladimir N. Makarov wrote:

>  And I am disagree that it is within compilation time guidelines set
> by SC.  Ken fixed a big compilation time degradation a few days ago
> and preliminary what I see now (comparison with the last merge point)
> is
>
> x86_64
> SPECInt2000 5.7%
> SPECFp200   8.7%
>
> ppc64
> SPECInt2000 6.5%
> SPECFp2000  5.5%
>
> Itanium
> SPECInt2000 9%
> SPECFp2000  10.9%
>
> Besides as I understand correctly the SC criteria means that there is
> no degradation on code quality.  There is code size degradation about
> 1% and some degradation on SPEC2000 (e.g. about 2% degradation on a
> few tests on ia64).

I'll be away for a week, so I'll miss most of the big flamewar, but I'd 
just like to throw in my opinion that based on these numbers I don't see 
why we're even considering it for inclusion at this point.

I also agree with Vlad's point that it needs to be reviewed before being 
committed to mainline.


Bernd
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