GCC still getting a lot slower

[Diego Novillo]

On Tue, 31 Dec 2002, Nathanael Nerode wrote:

> Can we test compile time change of some *fixed* piece of code, perhaps?
> 
Fair enough.  Look at SPEC build times then.

http://people.redhat.com/dnovillo/spec95/gcc/global-build-secs_elapsed.html


		  Dec16		  Dec17	    slowdown

SPECint		272 secs	290 secs 	6%
SPECfp		 64 secs	 68 secs	6%


The configury changes have indeed slowed down the bootstrap
process significantly.  Is this easily fixable?

OTOH, 6% compile time slowdown is not good news.


Diego.