Making GCC faster

[Karel Gardas]

On Mon, 6 Jun 2005, Sam Lauber wrote:

> There has been a lot of work recently on making GCC output faster code.  But
> GCC isn't very fast.  On my slow 750MHz Linux box (which the PIII in it is now
> R.I.P), it took a whole night to compile 3.4.3.

The memory of your box is probably too small, the CPU is IMHO OK. FYI: 
IIRC I've been doing 3.4.x builds on my 1GHz PIII + 512MB RAM for around 
30 minutes (c/c++) and for around 1.5 hour full build.

Cheers,
Karel
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