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To: Theo de Raadt <deraadt@cvs.openbsd.org>
Cc: Zack Weinberg <zack@codesourcery.com>,
   Andrew Pinski <pinskia@physics.uc.edu>, tech@openbsd.org,
   Marc Espie <espie@quatramaran.ens.fr>,
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Subject: Re: gcc and compiling speed
References: <200403010349.i213nxpD008197@cvs.openbsd.org>
From: Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr@integrable-solutions.net>
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Theo de Raadt <deraadt@cvs.openbsd.org> writes:

| > Theo de Raadt <deraadt@cvs.openbsd.org> writes:
| > 
| > >> Marc,
| > >> Now I know you have been asked before every time you bring up on the
| > >> GCC's mailing list about a set of preprocessed source for openbsd so
| > >> that the speed of GCC will improve.
| > >
| > > How will this improve the speed of gcc?
| > 
| > If Marc (or anyone) provides us with a test case for the performance
| > regression - for instance, the set of files produced by running gcc -E
| > over all of the openbsd kernel, which is what Andrew meant - then we
| > can find out why the compiler is slower, and fix it.
| > 
| > We do have our own test cases for compile time, and they have been
| > being fixed (mostly by Jan Hubicka) but we don't know that this will
| > help you.
| 
| How big is your mailbox?

Well, there is a central database for GCC

      http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/

that saves people from getting huge testcases directly in their
mailboxes. 

I have no idea how large is GCC's bugzilla  harddrive though


-- Gaby