Bootstrap Times Improvements?

[Ranjit Mathew]

On 5/19/05, Paolo Bonzini <paolo.bonzini@lu.unisi.ch> wrote:
> Ranjit Mathew wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> >   Between Tuesday and Wednesday (Indian time), something(s)
> > went into mainline that is showing me a dramatic decrease
> > in bootstrap times - a c,c++,java bootstrap on i686-pc-linux-gnu
> > now takes 51m for me compared to 65-66m earlier, which is
> > around 20% of savings over the course of a single day! So
> > who do I thank for it? :-)
> 
> I do not know if it is entirely because of the patch to build libjava
> one-directory-at-a-time.  If it is, you should thank me :-) for the
> patch, and rth for reviewing it very quickly.

I suspect as much and so does Tom, so a big THANK YOU
from me goes to you! :-)


> If you want, you can help by testing the patch for PR17485 against
> jacks; since a few days, I cannot get jacks to run (but I think it's my
> fault, not the tree's).

I'd be glad to. Can you point me to the patch? (Did you give
the correct PR number, BTW?)

Thanks,
Ranjit.

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