cache misses in gcc 3.3

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

kenner@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu (Richard Kenner) writes:

|     Parsing should not begin to take as much time as lexical analysis, so I
|     agree that these figures suggest something is very peculiar.
| 
| "parsing" also includes what is normally considered semantic analysis and
| also includes at least some level of code generation.

For the C++ front-end, people at Apple and me, are working on patches
to separate issues like template instantiation, overload resolution,
class and object layout from the normal "parsing" stuff.  That should
help seeing more though that bobble.

-- Gaby