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  • From: Arwed von Merkatz <v.merkatz AT gmx.net>
  • To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] split gcc spells
  • Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 18:17:38 +0200

On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 08:59:27AM -0700, Andrew wrote:
> > The way the gcc build system works this makes compilation of all
> > compilers together take a little bit longer than when they were in one
> > spell (expect about a 50% increase in needed time), but I think the
> > added flexibility is worth that. Especially since you only have to cast
> > objc now if you want the Objective-C compiler instead of recompiling the
> > whole compiler collection.
>
> Awesome! Thanks Arwed. Do you have any more info on how long it takes
> to compile each spell (even just relative percentages)?

I can give you rough numbers from my system (athlon 550):
gcc: 1h15m
g++: 1h30m
objc: 1h15m
g77: 1h50m
gcj: 4h15m

Yes, gcj takes *ages*, it has to build C, C++ and java, and the
profiledbootstrap adds two whole compile stages for each compiler.

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Arwed v. Merkatz Source Mage GNU/Linux developer
http://www.sourcemage.org




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