Should we remove java from the default bootstrap languages?

[Laurent GUERBY]

On Sun, 2008-06-22 at 21:57 -0400, NightStrike wrote:
> On 6/22/08, Kaveh R. GHAZI <ghazi@caip.rutgers.edu> wrote:
> > IMHO, having more languages and testsuites in the bootstrap process
> > enhances the quality of GCC.  I sympathize with the problems of regtest
> > duration.  I believe some of this could be addressed through making things
> > run in parallel better.
> 
> I think it could also be addressed with the gcc compile farm.  I
> thought that there was some place where we could put patches, and they
> would be automatically picked up and tested by some sort of automatic
> scripts....  am I dreaming about that?

Sebastian already write a script to do that, see "Automatic bootstrap
and regression testing" on http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/CompileFarm
(might not be up to date, Sebastian ?)

BTW testsuite timings data on compile farm 8 core barcelona:

-j8 check =c
1679.16user 568.21system 32:10.07elapsed 116%CPU

-j8 =c,ada check
5748.11user 224.91system 16:11.46elapsed 614%CPU

-j8 =c,c++ check
4445.12user 915.01system 33:12.87elapsed 268%CPU

-j8 =c,java (,c++ implied) check
4921.19user 1068.66system 34:20.50elapsed 290%CPU

Laurent