GCC 3.3 compile speed regression - AN ANSWER

[Per Abrahamsen]

Joel Sherrill <joel.sherrill@OARcorp.com> writes:

> 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.

Speeding up ld would help my edit/compile/run cycle far more than
speeding up gcc.  

Probably because gcc typically only have to compile one file after an
edit, while ld has to link 219 files.

Of course, for the rare cases where I have to build from scratch, gcc
is dominating.