Re: gcc-2.95.3 vs gcc-3.0.4

Juan Quintela
2002-02-25T16:19:21Z

>>>>> "justin" == Justin Piszcz <war@starband.net> writes:

justin> Wow, not sure if anyone here has done any benchmarks, but look at these
justin> build times:
justin> Kernel 2.4.17 did compile with 3.0.4, just much much slower than 2.95.3
justin> however.

justin> GCC 2.95.3
justin> Boot sector 512 bytes.
justin> Setup is 2628 bytes.
justin> System is 899 kB
justin> make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.17/arch/i386/boot'
justin> 287.28user 23.99system 5:15.81elapsed 98%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata
justin> 0maxresident)k
justin> 0inputs+0outputs (514864major+684661minor)pagefaults 0swaps

justin> GCC 3.0.4
justin> Boot sector 512 bytes.
justin> Setup is 2628 bytes.
justin> System is 962 kB
justin> warning: kernel is too big for standalone boot from floppy
justin> make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.17/arch/i386/boot'
justin> 406.87user 28.38system 7:23.68elapsed 98%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata
justin> 0maxresident)k
justin> 0inputs+0outputs (546562major+989237minor)pagefaults 0swaps

Hi, here the times chaned with the lastest 3.0.4, this is the first
3.0 compiler that is faster than 2.96 here. Compilation of a mdk
kernel (i.e. a kernel with everthing as modules).

(I compiled twice with both compilers & there are not variances).

2.96
2018.76user 159.29system 18:13.20elapsed 199%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident
)k
0inputs+0outputs (4007797major+8765072minor)pagefaults 0swaps

gcc-3.0.4
1797.23user 133.06system 16:07.98elapsed 199%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident
)k
0inputs+0outputs (3569637major+8775450minor)pagefaults 0swaps

And the size differences are not as big as they used to be:

root$ ls -l vmlinux*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3177771 Feb 24 18:06 vmlinux*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3206468 Feb 24 17:47 vmlinux-3.0.4*
root$ size vmlinux*
text data bss dec hex filename
2253010 301448 423008 2977466 2d6eba vmlinux
2294630 304924 423008 3022562 2e1ee2 vmlinux-3.0.4

Until now, gcc-3.0 binaryes tend to be quite bigger than gcc-2.96.

root$ rpm -qa | grep gcc | grep -v cpp
gcc-2.96-0.76mdk
libgcc3.0-3.0.4-1mdk
gcc3.0-3.0.4-1mdk

Later, Juan.

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