Re: Profiling gcc itself

2011-11-21 Thread Gary Funck
Two more suggestions (off-topic to the profiling point, but on topic to the idea of speeding up builds involving invocations of GCC): ccache: http://ccache.samba.org/ "ccache is a compiler cache. It speeds up recompilation by caching previous compilations and detecting when the same compilation i

Re: Profiling gcc itself

2011-11-20 Thread Hans-Peter Nilsson
On Sun, 20 Nov 2011, Jeff Evarts wrote: > On Sun, 20 Nov 2011 11:34:27 -0500, Tim Prince wrote: > > On 11/20/2011 11:10 AM, Basile Starynkevitch wrote: > >> On Sun, 20 Nov 2011 03:43:20 -0800 Jeff Evarts wrote: > >>> I posted this question at irc://irc.oftc.net/#gcc and they suggested > >>> tha

Re: Profiling gcc itself

2011-11-20 Thread Jonathan Wakely
On 21 November 2011 00:50, Jeff Evarts wrote: > Seriously, I meant no offense, and didn't want to cause a stir. I didn't interpret the replies as offended or stirred, I think they were just saying "it's not clear from your question whether you are already familiar with the most rudimentary* tools

Re: Profiling gcc itself

2011-11-20 Thread Diego Novillo
On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 08:10, Basile Starynkevitch wrote: > I'm not sure the question belongs to gcc@gcc.gnu.org, perhaps > gcc-h...@gcc.gnu.org might > be a better place. gcc@ is the right forum for this question. Diego.

Re: Profiling gcc itself

2011-11-20 Thread Diego Novillo
On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 03:43, Jeff Evarts wrote: > I posted this question at irc://irc.oftc.net/#gcc and they suggested > that I pose it here instead. > > I do some "large-ish" builds (linux, gcc itself, etc) on a too-regular > basis, and I was wondering what could be done to speed things up. A >

Re: Profiling gcc itself

2011-11-20 Thread David Edelsohn
On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 7:50 PM, Jeff Evarts wrote: > Apparently my question "Has anyone done X and what were the results" > has been mysteriously translated into "The GCC compiler is way too > slow and what are you lazy developers going to do to speed up my > compiles?!?". I will be more careful

Re: Profiling gcc itself

2011-11-20 Thread Jeff Evarts
I understand that the noob traffic to gcc@ must be high. Nonetheless... On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 8:10 AM, Basile Starynkevitch wrote: > > On Sun, 20 Nov 2011 03:43:20 -0800 > Jeff Evarts wrote: > > I posted this question at irc://irc.oftc.net/#gcc and they suggested > > that I pose it here inste

Re: Profiling gcc itself

2011-11-20 Thread Tim Prince
On 11/20/2011 11:10 AM, Basile Starynkevitch wrote: On Sun, 20 Nov 2011 03:43:20 -0800 Jeff Evarts wrote: I posted this question at irc://irc.oftc.net/#gcc and they suggested that I pose it here instead. I do some "large-ish" builds (linux, gcc itself, etc) on a too-regular basis, and I was

Re: Profiling gcc itself

2011-11-20 Thread Basile Starynkevitch
On Sun, 20 Nov 2011 03:43:20 -0800 Jeff Evarts wrote: > I posted this question at irc://irc.oftc.net/#gcc and they suggested > that I pose it here instead. > > I do some "large-ish" builds (linux, gcc itself, etc) on a too-regular > basis, and I was wondering what could be done to speed things u