GCC still getting a lot slower

[Paul Jarc]

Nathanael Nerode <neroden@twcny.rr.com> wrote:
> Frankly, I don't think we should look at bootstrap time.  A number of
> the largest changes in B-I-B were necessary build process changes, which
> are quite likely to slow down the build *of* the compiler, but not the
> performance of the compiler.  Or, in other words, "so what?". ;-)

As someone else noted a while ago, bootstrap times are important
because changes are tested by bootstrapping.  So slow bootstraps slow
down all other progress.

> Can we test compile time change of some *fixed* piece of code, perhaps?

That would also be useful, in its own way.


paul