Date: Wed, 09 Jul 2003 23:58:13 +0200 From: Marcin Dalecki <mdcki@gmx.net> To: Alexander Kabaev <ak03@gte.com> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The upcoming GCC 3.3+ upgrade Message-ID: <3F0C8FF5.5040602@gmx.net> In-Reply-To: <20030709173528.5db2dc02.ak03@gte.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0307091422430.22588-100000@InterJet.elischer.org> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0307091426470.22588-100000@InterJet.elischer.org> <20030709173528.5db2dc02.ak03@gte.com>
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Alexander Kabaev wrote: > On Wed, 9 Jul 2003 14:27:42 -0700 (PDT) > Julian Elischer <julian@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 :) C is tad bit slower. C++ is generally faster. Compared with the speed of other compilers GCC is still simply ridiculous. > 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. > > For now I am pretty happy that a newer compiler did not overflow boot2 > block. This is nice compared with a stable trend demonstrated by _all_ > previous releases.
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