GCC still getting a lot slower

[Paul Jarc]

Nathanael Nerode <neroden@twcny.rr.com> wrote:
> Paul Jarc said:
>> 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.
>
> Yeah.  But when I said 'necessary', I meant it; these changes have been
> on the TODO list forever, and they're correctness issues.

I wasn't disputing that - just pointing out that bootstrap times are
indeed important, in answer to your "so what".


paul