From: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
To: Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org>
Cc: Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
Timothy Miller <miller@techsource.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: support of older compilers
Date: Thu, 04 Nov 2004 15:48:19 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <418A9593.5070102@tmr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0411041050040.1229@gradall.private.brainfood.com>
Adam Heath wrote:
> On Wed, 3 Nov 2004, Chris Wedgwood wrote:
>
>
>>On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 05:06:56PM -0600, Adam Heath wrote:
>>
>>
>>>You can't be serious that this is a problem.
>>
>>try it, say gcc 2.95 vs gcc 4.0 ... i think last i checked the older
>>gcc was over twice as fast
>
>
> I didn't deny the speed difference of older and newer compilers.
>
> But why is this an issue when compiling a kernel? How often do you compile
> your kernel?
Twice for each -bk to look for "not my fault" issues (preempt and not),
usually once with some combination of Nick, Con, or Ingo patches, and
then with config options depending on what's been added. Not to mention
patches I cull from here and my own set of network patches.
For some people I bet the limit is 24/{compile_time} per day.
--
-bill davidsen (davidsen@tmr.com)
"The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the
last possible moment - but no longer" -me
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-11-04 20:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 76+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-11-03 21:02 support of older compilers Timothy Miller
2004-11-03 21:13 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-11-03 21:22 ` Chris Wedgwood
2004-11-03 23:06 ` Adam Heath
2004-11-03 23:30 ` Chris Wedgwood
2004-11-04 16:50 ` Adam Heath
2004-11-04 17:00 ` Chris Friesen
2004-11-04 18:17 ` Adam Heath
2004-11-05 20:00 ` Willy Tarreau
2004-11-05 20:28 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2004-11-05 20:31 ` Willy Tarreau
2004-11-04 17:04 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-11-04 18:15 ` Adam Heath
2004-11-04 18:31 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-11-04 21:56 ` Adam Heath
2004-11-04 18:54 ` Ian Romanick
2004-11-04 19:48 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-11-04 20:14 ` Giuseppe Bilotta
2004-11-05 20:04 ` Willy Tarreau
2004-11-04 19:36 ` Ian Hastie
2004-11-04 20:02 ` Ioan Ionita
2004-11-04 20:03 ` Adrian Bunk
2004-11-04 20:08 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-11-04 19:38 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-11-04 21:47 ` Adam Heath
2004-11-04 21:55 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-11-04 23:39 ` Adam Heath
2004-11-04 23:52 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-11-05 1:41 ` Andries Brouwer
2004-11-05 15:41 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-11-05 15:47 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-11-05 16:22 ` linux-os
2004-11-05 19:50 ` Chris Wedgwood
2004-11-05 20:28 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-11-05 21:59 ` Grzegorz Kulewski
2004-11-05 22:08 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-11-05 23:02 ` [PATCH] change Kconfig entry for RAMFS (Was: Re: support of older compilers) Grzegorz Kulewski
2004-11-05 23:12 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-11-05 23:44 ` [PATCH] change Kconfig entry for RAMFS Grzegorz Kulewski
2004-11-06 0:48 ` Grzegorz Kulewski
2004-11-09 23:24 ` Matt Mackall
2004-11-10 10:40 ` Grzegorz Kulewski
2004-11-10 20:50 ` Bill Davidsen
2004-11-05 23:27 ` [PATCH] change Kconfig entry for RAMFS (Was: Re: support of older compilers) DaMouse
2004-11-05 23:49 ` Grzegorz Kulewski
2004-11-06 13:59 ` DaMouse
2004-11-05 22:08 ` support of older compilers Hua Zhong
2004-11-06 8:38 ` Willy Tarreau
2004-11-06 9:43 ` Hugh Dickins
2004-11-06 11:04 ` Willy Tarreau
2004-11-05 22:37 ` support of older compilers [u] Martin Schlemmer [c]
2004-11-05 23:14 ` Grzegorz Kulewski
2004-11-05 23:38 ` chibiryuu
2004-11-06 12:07 ` support of older compilers Andries Brouwer
2004-11-06 17:33 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-11-06 19:36 ` Adrian Bunk
2004-11-06 21:41 ` bloat Andries Brouwer
2004-11-06 22:07 ` bloat Adrian Bunk
2004-11-06 21:30 ` bloat Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2004-11-07 13:37 ` bloat Frank van Maarseveen
2004-11-05 20:20 ` support of older compilers Willy Tarreau
2004-11-05 22:19 ` Adam Heath
2004-11-04 22:36 ` Martin J. Bligh
2004-11-04 20:48 ` Bill Davidsen [this message]
2004-11-04 22:33 ` Martin J. Bligh
2004-11-03 21:17 ` Matti Aarnio
2004-11-03 21:37 ` Giacomo A. Catenazzi
2004-11-03 21:57 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-11-04 2:16 ` Miles Bader
2004-11-03 22:07 ` Chris Wedgwood
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-11-04 19:33 Clayton Weaver
2004-11-05 15:36 ` Nix
2004-11-04 22:49 Xose Vazquez Perez
2004-11-06 9:07 Clayton Weaver
2004-11-09 17:39 ` Nix
[not found] <2Xj2s-5vj-33@gated-at.bofh.it>
2004-11-06 10:15 ` Anton Ertl
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=418A9593.5070102@tmr.com \
--to=davidsen@tmr.com \
--cc=cw@f00f.org \
--cc=doogie@debian.org \
--cc=hch@infradead.org \
--cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=miller@techsource.com \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).