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On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 3:34 AM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Wednesday 08 October 2008 09:35:25 Heiko Wundram wrote: |
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>> Am Wednesday 08 October 2008 06:50:47 schrieb Willie Wong: |
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>> > I don't remember gcc-3 being such a resource hog when building. So I |
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>> > wonder: is this the expected behaviour or is something wrong with my |
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>> > box? |
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>> Expected behaviour. >=gcc-4.2 compiles about three times longer than |
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>> <gcc-4.2 (IIRC 4.1.2 was the last gcc that I could compile in under 30 |
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>> minutes; the current one takes about 1.5 hours), and requires loads of |
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>> disk. |
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> gcc is getting like ooO :-) |
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> On a 2.5GHz Core 2 Duo notebook with 4G RAM: |
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> * sys-devel/gcc |
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> Sun Aug 3 20:05:36 2008 >>> sys-devel/gcc-4.3.1-r1 |
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> merge time: 51 minutes and 7 seconds. |
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> Mon Aug 4 21:54:42 2008 >>> sys-devel/gcc-4.3.1-r1 |
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> merge time: 42 minutes and 19 seconds. |
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> Mon Oct 6 10:36:58 2008 >>> sys-devel/gcc-4.3.2 |
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> merge time: 1 hour, 26 minutes and 29 seconds. |
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> The machine is being used while those compiles are running so it takes longer |
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> than if left alone. But the relative times are still valid. |
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You can see the merge time getting longer with each version (I'm using |
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x86_64 so it may do some extra compiles for 32/64 stuff): |
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Wed Jun 20 17:24:25 2007 >>> sys-devel/gcc-3.3.6-r1 |
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merge time: 6 minutes and 43 seconds. |
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Tue Jun 12 22:34:39 2007 >>> sys-devel/gcc-4.1.2 |
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merge time: 25 minutes and 25 seconds. |
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Fri Jul 20 21:15:31 2007 >>> sys-devel/gcc-4.2.0 |
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merge time: 36 minutes and 2 seconds. |
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Mon Jun 9 11:39:41 2008 >>> sys-devel/gcc-4.3.1 |
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merge time: 48 minutes and 9 seconds. |
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Mon Oct 6 12:56:57 2008 >>> sys-devel/gcc-4.3.2 |
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merge time: 1 hour, 7 minutes and 53 seconds. |
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It still has a way to go if it wants to beat OpenOffice (the king): |
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Tue Aug 19 20:47:26 2008 >>> app-office/openoffice-2.4.1 |
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merge time: 2 hours, 43 minutes and 43 seconds. |
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Paul |
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