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From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: Matteo Croce <mcroce@redhat.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, David Ahern <dsahern@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH iproute2-next] Makefile: pass -pipe to the compiler
Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2019 12:28:00 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190611122800.56d72eba@hermes.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190611180513.30772-1-mcroce@redhat.com>

On Tue, 11 Jun 2019 20:05:13 +0200
Matteo Croce <mcroce@redhat.com> wrote:

> Pass the -pipe option to GCC, to use pipes instead of temp files.
> On a slow AMD G-T40E CPU we get a non negligible 6% improvement
> in build time.
> 
> real    1m15,111s
> user    1m2,521s
> sys     0m12,465s
> 
> real    1m10,861s
> user    1m2,520s
> sys     0m12,901s
> 
> Signed-off-by: Matteo Croce <mcroce@redhat.com>

Why bother, on my machine (make -j12).

Before
real	0m6.320s
user	0m30.674s
sys	0m3.649s


After (with -pipe)
real	0m6.158s
user	0m31.197s
sys	0m3.532s


So it is slower. Get a faster disk :-)

Maybe allow "EXTRA_CFLAGS" to be passed to Makefile for those that
have a burning need for this.

  reply	other threads:[~2019-06-11 19:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-06-11 18:05 [PATCH iproute2-next] Makefile: pass -pipe to the compiler Matteo Croce
2019-06-11 19:28 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2019-07-14 16:36   ` Matteo Croce

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