From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 5196 invoked by alias); 24 Jun 2004 19:11:48 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gcc-patches-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-patches-owner@gcc.gnu.org Received: (qmail 5046 invoked from network); 24 Jun 2004 19:11:45 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lon-mail-3.gradwell.net) (193.111.201.127) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 24 Jun 2004 19:11:45 -0000 Received: (qmail 24801 invoked from network); 24 Jun 2004 19:11:41 -0000 Received: from digraph.polyomino.org.uk (postmaster%pop3.polyomino.org.uk@81.187.227.50) by lon-mail-3.gradwell.net with SMTP; 24 Jun 2004 19:11:41 -0000 Received: from jsm28 (helo=localhost) by digraph.polyomino.org.uk with local-esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BdZdN-0005sr-8S; Thu, 24 Jun 2004 19:11:41 +0000 Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 21:01:00 -0000 From: "Joseph S. Myers" X-X-Sender: jsm28@digraph.polyomino.org.uk To: Laurent GUERBY cc: Richard Earnshaw , Geoffrey Keating , Richard Kenner , gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Re: Patch to allow Ada to work with tree-ssa In-Reply-To: <1088102802.4924.69.camel@pc.site> Message-ID: References: <10406221853.AA08995@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu> <1088081063.774.39.camel@pc960.cambridge.arm.com> <1088102802.4924.69.camel@pc.site> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-SW-Source: 2004-06/txt/msg01982.txt.bz2 On Thu, 24 Jun 2004, Laurent GUERBY wrote: > It would be more interesting to have a fixed piece of code compile time, > like a stable release with some tools, daily CVS bootstrap time is a > poor indicator of compile time speed, it can vary greatly for > reasons unrelated to pure compile speed. Bootstrap time may be poor as a benchmark of compile time speed, but the time required for a full bootstrap and testsuite run (complete with the default --enable-checking on mainline) is a measure of immediate practical significance for anyone making changes to GCC. -- Joseph S. Myers http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~jsm28/gcc/ jsm@polyomino.org.uk (personal mail) jsm28@gcc.gnu.org (Bugzilla assignments and CCs)