Some benchmark comparison of gcc4.5 and dragonegg (was dragonegg in FSF gcc?)

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 04/21/2010 07:04 PM, Steven Bosscher wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 6:56 PM, Robert Dewar<dewar@adacore.com>  wrote:
>> Actually for my taste, you have to get a MUCH bigger factor in compile
>> time before you can call yourself a fast compiler (Realia COBOL by
>> comparison compiles millions of lines a minute of code on current
>> PC's, using just one core).
>
> Heh, you always bring up the Realia compiler when there's a compile
> time discussion. Must have been a really impressive piece of work,
> that it was so fast :-)

It was fast, I used it for my first summer job, and spent some time 
looking at its output too.  :-)

And actually I'm impressed especially because it wasn't (as far as I 
remember) an optimizing compiler, yet it was written in itself _and_ so 
fast.

Paolo