Ranjit Mathew wrote: >>Ideally, there'd be a configure flag to control "chunking". > > > Note that libgcj already supports an "--enable-libgcj-multifile" > configuration option that coarsely attempts to do the above. > > See: > > http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/java-patches/2003-q3/msg00658.html
I tried this out by bootstrapping mainline on i686-pc-linux-gnu (RHEL 3AS U4, P4 2.4GHz, 1GB RAM, 512MB Swap) and found *no difference* in the total bootstrap time. :-/ Either this option has bitrotted or something else undoes its effect. Ranjit. -- Ranjit Mathew Email: rmathew AT gmail DOT com Bangalore, INDIA. Web: http://ranjitmathew.hostingzero.com/
