Hello.
We are using GCC for our C++ projects. Our projects are huge, commit
rate is quite huge, so our CI workers are always busy (so as any other
CI workers, honestly). Since we want to increase build speed, one of the
option is to optimize the compiler itself. Sounds like a good case for PGO.
Clang has the infrastructure for building the Clang itself with PGO:
https://llvm.org/docs/HowToBuildWithPGO.html . I have tried to find
something like that for GCC but with no success.
My proposal is:
* add support for building PGO-optimized GCC into the GCC build
infrastructure
* add documentation to the GCC site, how to build GCC with PGO
optimizations
* (if GCC community provides prebuilt gcc binaries) use PGO for the
prebuilt binaries. E.g. Clang and rustc already uses this approach.
Any feedback is appreciated.
Thanks in advance!
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Best regards,
Alexander Zaitsev
