> 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. :)

Best,
sam