GCC 3.3 compile speed regression - AN ANSWER

[law@redhat.com]

In message <F989E731-3D5A-11D7-A4D8-003065A77310@apple.com>, Mike Stump writes:
 >On Monday, February 10, 2003, at 03:27 PM, Joel Sherrill wrote:
 >> Has anyone looked at how much the binutils contribute to the end to
 >> end performance question?  gas is involved in every compile and ld is
 >> involved in every program link.  I just don't recall it every being
 >> mentioned.
 >
 >Yes.  Down so far in the noise, that I don't even want to mention how 
 >long they take, but I can, gas 2.6%, ld 1.3%.  Testcase Finder_FE with 
 >-Os -g.  Note, these are for Apple's versions of these tools in our 
 >environment, and on Linux, you may see different numbers.
Depends on your environment.  I've been involved with folks where link
time actually dominated compile time.    It really depends on what you're
doing.

Jeff