On Wed, 2005-04-27 at 16:31, David Edelsohn wrote: > The GCC build times are not unreasonable compared to other, > commercial compilers with similar functionality. And the GCC developers > ave plans to address inefficiencies -- GCC 4.0 often is faster than GCC > 3.4.
If you are going to make sweeping statements like this you need to back them up with hard data. For C code, on average (obviously there are cases which are exceptions) GCC 4.0 is about 7% slower on ARM than gcc 3.4. http://www.inf.u-szeged.hu/csibe/ocomp.php?branchid_a=gcc_3_4_0_release&branchid_b=gcc_4_0_0_release&targetid_a=arm-elf&targetid_b=arm-elf×tamp_a=2003-01-01%2012:00:00×tamp_b=2003-01-01%2012:00:00&flags_a=-O2&flags_b=-O2&csibever_a=2.x.x&csibever_b=2.x.x&dataview=Compilation%20time&viewmode=Summarized%20bar%20chart&finish_button=Finish And it is >10% slower than 3.3. And ... R.