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Date:      Wed, 6 Aug 2003 23:44:26 -0700
From:      "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org>
To:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Cc:        sparc64@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ponderous 'make world' times post GCC 3.3...
Message-ID:  <20030807064426.GA69176@dragon.nuxi.com>
In-Reply-To: <20030807063210.GA72779@rot13.obsecurity.org>
References:  <20030807062536.GA68747@dragon.nuxi.com> <20030807063210.GA72779@rot13.obsecurity.org>

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On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 11:32:10PM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 11:25:36PM -0700, David O'Brien wrote:
> > Am I the only one that saw 'make world' go from almost 3 hours with GCC
> > 3.2 to:
> 
> Nope, that's just gcc 3.3.  Someone had a reference to some benchmarks
> the gcc people did that showed progressive slowdowns over the course
> of the gcc 3.x branch.

It has been argued by Richard Henderson (urber GCC hacker) that 3.3 is no
slower than 3.2.  I'm now thinking that this is a cache-size issue.  I
wonder if GCC is blowing out my tiny 256KB cache.
 
-- 
-- David  (obrien@FreeBSD.org)



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