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

[Zack Weinberg]

Gerard Beekmans <gerard@linuxfromscratch.org> writes:

> On February 23, 2003 04:44 pm, Zack Weinberg wrote:
>> If you can use oprofile to produce summaries for entire package
>> builds, I'd be very interested to see the results.  In addition to
>> the obvious user-space CPU cycle counting, it would be good to see
>> if there's any part of the kernel that gets hammered, and get cache
>> and TLB miss statistics.
>
> oprofile is a new beast to me. Are you talking about 
> http://oprofile.sourceforge.net ?

Yes.

> Got a quick cheat sheet with commands that'll produce output you
> guys like to see (I guess I should just download the package and
> read the docs that come with it).

Sorry, the only reason I haven't done this myself is that I haven't
been able to figure out how to get it working on my own systems.

zw