gcc3.3 30% speedup in the past 2 weeks (MICO compilation)

[Karel Gardas]

On Sun, 23 Feb 2003, Kaveh R. Ghazi wrote:

>  > PS: Seeing these results, I think that it might be interesting to see
>  > gcc3.4 times with Kaveh R. Ghazi's patches (I hope they are already
>  > applied). I'll test it on Monday...
>
> <blush> Thanks, it's very gratifying to know the patch had a positive
> impact.  You're seeing even more of an improvement that I did on
> Gerald's testcase.  That's great.  I'm interested to see reports from
> other very large (c++) packages.
>
> The same code is also in 3.4, so you should see similar improvements
> there.

ACK. Good, anyway, since 3.4 was even faster for MICO compilation than
3.3. I guess it'll be the fastest gcc > 3.2. - that's even w/o using PCH.

> BTW, (I may have missed it) what's your OS, how much memory does your
> system have and does physmem.c report it accurately?

I've already posted it. It's Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 on PIII 256kb L2 cache,
i440BX chipset, 512MB 100MHz SDRAM. pmem reports:

total=503.476562Mb avail=8.234375Mb

Cheers,

Karel
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