From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v746.3) In-Reply-To: <810c885907de9253706fc61fd641101d@collyer.net> References: <810c885907de9253706fc61fd641101d@collyer.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Lyndon Nerenberg Subject: Re: [9fans] ports from GPL Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2006 17:16:02 -0800 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 16bd11e6-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Mar 17, 2006, at 4:39 PM, geoff@collyer.net wrote: > I don't know if gcc 4 is the slowest C compiler on the > planet (I suspect that Henry Spencer's never-finished aacc, written in > awk, might take that title), but it's the slowest one I've used. This winner (?) has to be the Mipspro compilers with multipass code path analysis and branch optimization turned on. Back when I was doing the Irix builds of the distributed.net client I would routinely see compile times in the 10's of minutes. Well, I tell a lie. All the magic happened during the link phase, but even then, it took a loooong time. And we had reasonably fast machines (for the day, anyway). --lyndon