GCC 3.5 Status (2004-08-29)

[Andrew Pinski]

On Aug 29, 2004, at 5:53 PM, Mark Mitchell wrote:

> Maintaining compilation speed was a precondition set by the SC for the 
> tree-ssa merge.  If that condition was not met, then perhaps the merge 
> should not have been performed.  The fact that it was probably 
> indicates that people weren't too worried about these compile-time 
> effects.


There has been a couple of cases where compile time has actually speed 
up
a huge amount even with the new optimization so it was no a clear cut if
we should not merge or not.

I should note that the bootstrap time feels longer but I could be 
imagining
things.


-- Pinski