Re: The upcoming GCC 3.3+ upgrade

From: Wilko Bulte <wkb_at_freebie.xs4all.nl>
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 00:08:05 +0200
On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 05:35:28PM -0400, Alexander Kabaev wrote:
> On Wed, 9 Jul 2003 14:27:42 -0700 (PDT)
> Julian Elischer <julian_at_elischer.org> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > p.s. this does not mean that I do not appreciate the work you are
> > doing to keep our compiler up to date.. Keep up the good work.
> > 
> 
> Julian,
> 
> there was nothing in your question that could possibly offend me. I do
> not take comments about GCC suckage personally. Yes, GCC 3.3 compilation
> speed is likely to suffer a bit compared to 3.2, although the change
> should be pretty minimal. There are examples where GCC 3.3 even beats
> 3.2 in compilation speed, but I would not keep much hope :)
> 
> The GCC folks have started to take compilation speed seriously in 3.4
> branch, we'll see if changed attitude will make a difference in their
> next major release.

Do you per chance know how the speed is on Alpha (or non-IA32 CPUs
in general)?

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