Compilation time (was Re: GCC 3.3)

[Phil Edwards]

On Wed, Apr 30, 2003 at 02:53:56AM +0200, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
> Matt Austern <austern@apple.com> writes:
> | I've got some specific suggestions, some of which you've probably
> | thought of already:
> | 
> |   1. Compile an unchanging piece of source code.  Compiler bootstrap
> | is a poor test, for example, because you're never timing the same
> | thing twice.
> 
> Completely agreed; although bootstrapping the compiler might give
> some indication on slowdown :-)  

That's what I'm starting with, only because I already had some stuff in
place to examine the output (e.g, what kind of bootstrap failure, for the
nag mail).

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