From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: law@redhat.com
To: Daniel Berlin <dan@cgsoftware.com>
Cc: Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at>, Mark Mitchell <mark@codesourcery.com>, Joe Buck <jbuck@synopsys.com>, "gcc@gcc.gnu.org" <gcc@gcc.gnu.org>
Subject: Re: C++ compile-time regressions (was: GCC 3.0.1 Status Report) 
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 14:00:00 -0000
Message-id: <19638.995922179@localhost.localdomain>
References: <856548000.995904843@[192.168.0.106]>
X-SW-Source: 2001-07/msg01540.html

  In message < 856548000.995904843@[192.168.0.106] >you write:
  > >   In message < 877kwzearp.fsf@cgsoftware.com >you write:
  > >   > Past that, e very other compiler i know of started using region based
  > > compi   > ling
  > >   > (HP's ELCOR, SGI Pro64, SGI's mipspro, Intel's compilers,
  > >   > IBM's compilers, etc) in order to cut down the compile time while
  > > speeding   > up the code.
  > > I know that SGI's compiler doesn't actually do region stuff.  They ran
  > > into a rats nest of problems with the actual implementation.
  > >
  > 
  > Err, the source code for pro64 has it in there, and at O2 and O3, it 
  > certainly goes through that code, and appears to create regions/use them.
Certainly all the code is in there, but it's not being used (actually, I
think their team mentioned one case where it is used, but it was fairly minor).

jeff