Re: GCC speed (was [PATCH] Isapnp warning)

[Michael Buesch <fsdeveloper@yahoo.de>]

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On Sunday 22 June 2003 22:07, John Bradford wrote:
> > No, the build system is OK.  And ccache nicely fixes up any mistakes
> > which the build system makes, and distcc speeds things up by 2x to 3x.
> >
> > None of that gets around the fact that code needs to be tested with
> > various combinations of CONFIG_SMP, CONFIG_PREEMPT, different
> > subarchitectures, spinlock debugging, etc, etc.  If the compiler is slow
> > people don't bother doing this and the code breaks.
> >
> > Cause and effect.
>
> Are the benchmarks that show gcc 3.3 to be much slower at compile time
> being done with a natively compiled gcc 3.3?  I.E. gcc 3.3 compiled
> with itself?
>
> When I upgraded a few machines from 2.95.3 to 3.2.3, I noticed that
> the last of the three compiles, (I.E. a gcc-3.2.3 compiled gcc-3.2.3
> compiling the gcc-3.2.3 source), was noticably quicker than the first
> two, to the extent that it was easily mesaurable by a wall clock.
>
> I am just wondering whether there gcc-3.X binaries in use that were
> compiled with gcc-2.95.3, that are swaying benchmarks in favour of
> 2.95.3 compiled with itself.
>
> I haven't benchmarked gcc-2.95.3 compiled with gcc-3.2.3, though.

The preferred build command for gcc is
$ make bootstrap
AFAIK that compiles the compiler in three stages.
stage1 => normal with currently installed compiler
stage2 => with stage1 compiler
stage3 => I don't know. Either with stage1 or stage2.

So if you built it with bootstrap it's impossible to have
bad or good performance, just because it was built this
this or that compiler.

Please correct me if I'm wrong. :)

> John.

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Regards Michael Büsch
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