Compilation time (was Re: GCC 3.3)

[law@redhat.com]

In message <1051729667.15551.5.camel@ghostwheel.sfbay.redhat.com>, Eric Christo
pher writes:
 >
 >> Five hours falls into the hellishly long category.
 >> 
 >> But there may be hope:  how much time does "no fancy things" shave from
 >> that hour of build time?  If building the non-fancy parts of Qt only takes
 >> 10 minutes, then that's a very viable option.
 >
 >How about 20001226-1.c? It takes a while to build and while it's kinda
 >dependent on a couple of passes in teh compiler, it can take a few mins
 >to build.
Yea, but it's really stressing just a couple key codepaths.  While it's
an interesting test, I don't necessarily think it's representative of
real code.

Qt, Mozilla, POOMA and the like would make much better tests -- even if
it's just some of their shared libraries if the entire packages themselves
are too large.

Jeff