From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from ciao.gmane.io (ciao.gmane.io [116.202.254.214]) by sourceware.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 20D143858D20 for ; Thu, 26 Oct 2023 11:19:51 +0000 (GMT) DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.4.2 sourceware.org 20D143858D20 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; dmarc=fail (p=quarantine dis=none) header.from=westcontrol.com Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=m.gmane-mx.org ARC-Filter: OpenARC Filter v1.0.0 sourceware.org 20D143858D20 Authentication-Results: server2.sourceware.org; arc=none smtp.remote-ip=116.202.254.214 ARC-Seal: i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=sourceware.org; s=key; t=1698319192; cv=none; b=ex9vQjLi1zqIp87g1q+YPvtVETWHsSxIDlgpWSv9AniGFNaNCZD2nqukT9oNIrTjBih5ZHu3vL58TbtxIq1a9WnxIXFgJJj2+R1RMIUtgjtm7u4XvD0YCH0r1n2lSezmk9MuiTu/MNo+vQ6PutsTuzd47y5BGcS5jSCRrvIIStw= ARC-Message-Signature: i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=sourceware.org; s=key; t=1698319192; c=relaxed/simple; bh=3QqBJvpPT7gjjgkioXVpDF2enrqcwJuqXD50mYW9Sac=; h=To:From:Subject:Date:Message-ID:Mime-Version; b=p7m0JIQP12AZMvW00vyzXBYP41aA7v32oT41tb48lM9WEkaxS3zHIfGcYuLAyzFouX+v8omI+VxaepYWRSKeC9SBxNy25CUbMt75MbpRpsbHH67wcXD125EhlQqqZPWmqln2ympjdhgaErQTyugFsPctqCMG/zC+1eTGeRhkicQ= ARC-Authentication-Results: i=1; server2.sourceware.org Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1qvyOz-0001G4-Qx for gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org; Thu, 26 Oct 2023 13:19:49 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org From: David Brown Subject: Re: Compilation of lengthy C++ Files Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2023 13:19:42 +0200 Message-ID: References: <7834093f-0639-9ae1-cf9f-b0377a26f00b@westcontrol.com> <30ea01f8046640cc9cc269a987283fd5294e89ee.camel@gnu.org> <56e28c8b-903f-4e55-965e-a1c1fc92249d@foss.arm.com> <357520c5c2c85ed3e040fa886f5565ff11c51854.camel@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/102.11.0 Content-Language: en-GB In-Reply-To: <357520c5c2c85ed3e040fa886f5565ff11c51854.camel@gnu.org> X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.0 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FORGED_MUA_MOZILLA,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,KAM_DMARC_STATUS,NICE_REPLY_A,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,TXREP autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.6 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.6 (2021-04-09) on server2.sourceware.org List-Id: On 25/10/2023 16:49, Paul Smith via Gcc-help wrote: > On Wed, 2023-10-25 at 12:09 +0100, Richard Earnshaw wrote: >> Those defensive measures further slow down your compiled programs. > > Just to remind, Kai Song has said multiple times in these threads that > they're not asking about improving the performance of the resulting > compiled program. They don't seem to mind if the resulting program > takes days or weeks to run. > He has actually said he doesn't mind if the /compile/ time is months, or even years! > They are asking here about how to get the compiler to successfully > compile the code, not how to make the compiled code faster. > Yes - with an emphasis on wanting to persuade GCC to compile his generated code, rather than on wanting to generate code that can be compiled by GCC.