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Subject: [Bug middle-end/64928] [8/9/10/11 Regression] Inordinate cpu time
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https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3D64928

--- Comment #31 from Richard Biener <rguenth at gcc dot gnu.org> ---
(In reply to lucier from comment #30)
> I'm coming back to this project.
>=20
> I naively thought "Well, I don't need arc profiling, I'll just set
> -ftest-coverage without -fprofile-arcs" but it appears that I can't do th=
at,
> the gcda files are generated by -fprofile-arcs.
>=20
> It seems to me that test coverage could be implemented simply by
> instrumenting each basic block in an algorithm that's linear in the number
> of basic blocks.  Is it possible to do this?
>=20
> Brad

I don't think the instrumentation itself is the problem - it's already
doing better than one counter per block.  It's simply that the large
source runs into multiple non-linearities in core pieces of the compiler
that cannot be turned off ...=