On Thu, 2005-04-28 at 11:08 -0700, Devang Patel wrote:
> On Apr 28, 2005, at 10:54 AM, Daniel Berlin wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 2005-04-28 at 10:23 -0700, Devang Patel wrote:
> >> On Apr 28, 2005, at 9:10 AM, Daniel Berlin wrote:
> >>
> >>> 1. make bootstrap on a 2.4ghz p4 takes 90 minutes for me as of
> >>> yesterday.
> >>> 2. Building XLC with (C,C++,Fortran) and a single backend takes
> >>> roughly
> >>> the same time as building GCC.  And they aren't three staging,  
> >>> AFAIK.
> >>
> >> "..ain't the same ballpark, it ain't the same league,
> >> it ain't even the same..." :-)
> >
> > Bullshit.
> > They are both production quality compilers.
> >
> > People complain gcc bootstrap is too long. XLC at O2 (which is what  
> > they
> > compile at, last i looked) isn't running the IPA middle end, etc.
> 
> Again,
> 
> "..ain't the same ballpark, it ain't the same league,
> it ain't even the same ******* sport..."
> 
> Software A provides X1 functionality.
> Software B provides X2 functionality.
> 

This has nothing to do with it.
We are talking about bootstrap times of compilers with roughly
equivalent functionality.

They both compile C, C++, and fortran.

You can assume our backends and frontend are comparable in terms of
functionality (they actually are, though not equivalent in performance
generated by that functionality, but in time taken by each functional
part they are).

As i've said, we've already excluded the running time for the
functionality we don't have (interprocedural middle end).

--Dan

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