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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