Faster compilation speed

[Janis Johnson]

On Wed, Aug 14, 2002 at 04:45:14AM -0700, Noel Yap wrote:
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>  How is compilation speed being tested?

I would also like to know the preferred method of testing compilation
speed.  Possibilities include using the time utility, or GCC's
-ftime-report, which prints information about the time used by each
pass.  People with access to platform-dependent tools are also using
those to gather specific kinds of information, as David Edelsohn did
with cache misses on AIX.

The release criteria include testing compile-time performance and peak
memory usage; see http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-3.1/criteria.html .  The only
source code listed is a GCC source file.  As people do compile-time
testing they should consider proposing more tests to include in the
release criteria, along with specific methods of measurement.

Janis