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From: Xi Ruoyao <xry111@xry111.site>
To: Sagar Acharya <sagaracharya@tutanota.com>
Cc: gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: Cross Compiling for riscv64
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2023 21:02:14 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2c918a575894e49277e30d427c6df2380a9a098e.camel@xry111.site> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <NOF-04_--3-9@tutanota.com>

On Tue, 2023-02-14 at 13:57 +0100, Sagar Acharya wrote:
> Point of a compiler is to convert C code to machine code of
> hex/binary/object file in least amount of time and conserving as much
> memory as can be done.

A compiler needs to take a balance between compiling speed & memory
consumption and the speed & memory consumption of the generated code. 
GCC prefers to make better generated code, as long as no quadratic
behavior exists during compile time.

> The values of memory required are definitely not of order 1GB. There
> are OSes which can be booted in less than 100MB.

You can find another compiler if you really need one for a small device.
Or you can submit some patches to improve the speed & memory footprint
of GCC (or hire somebody to do) as long as you don't hurt the generated
code.

"You think what it should be" is not "what it should be".

-- 
Xi Ruoyao <xry111@xry111.site>
School of Aerospace Science and Technology, Xidian University

  reply	other threads:[~2023-02-14 13:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-02-14 11:37 Sagar Acharya
2023-02-14 11:48 ` Xi Ruoyao
2023-02-14 12:28   ` Sagar Acharya
2023-02-14 12:43     ` Xi Ruoyao
2023-02-14 12:57       ` Sagar Acharya
2023-02-14 13:02         ` Xi Ruoyao [this message]
2023-02-14 13:27         ` Jonathan Wakely
2023-02-14 13:36 ` Kai Ruottu
2023-02-14 13:46   ` Kai Ruottu

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