GCC testsuite timeout question (gcc.c-torture/compile/20001226-1.c)

[Eric Botcazou]

> Yes, I think you are right.  I can see a substantial slowdown in
> compilation times on IA64 HP-UX at -O2 (though it doesn't time out
> there).
>
> gcc 4.0.0 - 81 seconds
> gcc 3.4.1 - 38 seconds
> gcc 3.4.0 - 37 seconds
> gcc 3.3.5 - 89 seconds
> gcc 3.3.1 - 91 seconds
>
> 3.3 is slow, 3.4 is faster, 4.0.0 seems slow agin, I don't have 4.0.*
> hanging around to test.

Thanks for the figures.

More generally, I think 3.4.x is overall faster than 3.3.x because someone 
really competent (Jan Hubicka) sat down a few weeks before the release and 
produced a series of patches only aimed at cutting down the memory 
consumption and speeding up the compiler.  So that's definitely doable, 
albeit certainly hard.

-- 
Eric Botcazou