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Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 20:44:56 -0800
From: Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com>
To: Justin Piszcz <war@starband.net>
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Subject: Re: gcc-2.95.3 vs gcc-3.0.4
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Try 2.72, it's almost twice as fast as 2.95 for builds.  For BK, at least,
we don't see any benefit from the slower compiler, the code runs the same
either way.

On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 11:40:09PM -0500, Justin Piszcz wrote:
> Wow, not sure if anyone here has done any benchmarks, but look at these
> build times:
> Kernel 2.4.17 did compile with 3.0.4, just much much slower than 2.95.3
> however.
> 
> GCC 2.95.3
> Boot sector 512 bytes.
> Setup is 2628 bytes.
> System is 899 kB
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.17/arch/i386/boot'
> 287.28user 23.99system 5:15.81elapsed 98%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata
> 0maxresident)k
> 0inputs+0outputs (514864major+684661minor)pagefaults 0swaps
> 
> GCC 3.0.4
> Boot sector 512 bytes.
> Setup is 2628 bytes.
> System is 962 kB
> warning: kernel is too big for standalone boot from floppy
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.17/arch/i386/boot'
> 406.87user 28.38system 7:23.68elapsed 98%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata
> 0maxresident)k
> 0inputs+0outputs (546562major+989237minor)pagefaults 0swaps
> 
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