> On 8 Nov 2022, at 07:36, Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>> On 8 Nov 2022, at 07:34, Eric Botcazou <botcazou@adacore.com> wrote:
>> 
>>>  I build GCC regularly from the weekly snapshots
>>>  and so the decompression time adds up.
>> 
>> But is very largely dwarfed by the build time of the compiler, isn't it?
>> 
> 
> It is. It's no big deal if the patch isn't accepted, it's just very cheap to do
> for a decent benefit.
> 
> In particular, there's a lot of cases where I need to go through a cycle
> of checking various patches still apply and rebasing.
> 
> I won't be offended if the view is to not bother though. :)

Also: sometimes as a distribution we want to make some changes
to our build scripts and do a --disable-bootstrap and otherwise minimal
build repeatedly. It's useful there as well.

(A recent example was when playing with doing a separate JIT build,
as the docs recommend.)