From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 26222 invoked by alias); 17 Nov 2005 23:10:08 -0000 Received: (qmail 26208 invoked by uid 22791); 17 Nov 2005 23:10:05 -0000 Received: from nile.gnat.com (HELO nile.gnat.com) (205.232.38.5) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.30-dev) with ESMTP; Thu, 17 Nov 2005 23:10:05 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by filtered-nile.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id DCB4E48CF2D; Thu, 17 Nov 2005 18:10:02 -0500 (EST) Received: from nile.gnat.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (nile.gnat.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 04736-01-5; Thu, 17 Nov 2005 18:10:02 -0500 (EST) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (dhcp10.gnat.com [205.232.38.232]) by nile.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70B2448CF27; Thu, 17 Nov 2005 18:10:02 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <437D0DC7.7040509@adacore.com> Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 23:10:00 -0000 From: Robert Dewar User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Windows/20050716) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ian Lance Taylor CC: Richard Earnshaw , gcc mailing list Subject: Re: Link-time optimzation References: <437BB214.1070306@codesourcery.com> <20051117011900.GA17847@redhat.com> <437BDC9E.3080608@codesourcery.com> <1132227692.24110.40.camel@pc960.cambridge.arm.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-owner@gcc.gnu.org X-SW-Source: 2005-11/txt/msg00801.txt.bz2 Ian Lance Taylor wrote: >>We spend a lot of time printing out the results of compilation as >>assembly language, only to have to parse it all again in the assembler. I never like arguments which have loaded words like "lot" without quantification. Just how long *is* spent in this step, is it really significant?