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Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 05:42:00 -0000
From: Marc Espie <espie@nerim.net>
To: Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at>
Cc: toon@moene.indiv.nluug.nl, gcc@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: GCC 3.1 Release
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.44.0204171048310.87796-100000@naos.dbai.tuwien.ac.at>; from pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at on Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 10:58:51AM +0200
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On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 10:58:51AM +0200, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Apr 2002, Marc Espie wrote:
> > I don't want to sound too pessimistic, but if things don't improve,
> > a large subset of people are not going to want to update beyond gcc 2.95,
> > especially the guys who are not running on i386/linux.
> 
> FWIW, FreeBSD is adopting GCC 3.1 as system compiler for -CURRENT which
> will become FreeBSD 5.0 later this year.
> 

Does look like a bad idea...

A quick test with the new gcc 3.1 shows that the compiler itself is about 
twice as slow as gcc 2.95.3... ouch.

make  3.72s user 0.53s system 94% cpu 4.495 total
CC=egcc make  6.75s user 0.71s system 93% cpu 7.986 total

Totally unacceptable on slow machines.