[fedora-java] Performance issues with gcc-4.1.0-0.10.i386

[Andrew Overholt]

On Fri, 2005-12-23 at 17:49 +0000, Andrew Haley wrote:
> Tom Tromey writes:
>  > >>>>> "Andrew" == Andrew Overholt <overholt at redhat.com> writes:
>  > 
>  > Andrew> I am seeing some performance issues with the latest gcc
>  > Andrew> rawhide RPM set.  I tried a build of Eclipse with them and it
>  > Andrew> took 650 minutes 42 seconds where it used to take about 20 -
>  > Andrew> 30 minutes (this is just for the bytecode, BTW).
>  > 
>  > I didn't see a note on this list... Andrew Haley and Jakub Jelinek
>  > tracked this down to bad debug info generated by an odd combination of
>  > events (rpm build flags mixing weirdly with the x86 setup in the
>  > compiler triggering some ld bug, or something like that).  This will
>  > be fixed in a forthcoming compiler rev.
> 
> To be honest, we haven't yet proved that this is the real problem --
> we won't know until we try the new compiler rev.  But IMO it's a
> likely contender.

I think this was probably it because things worked great after upgrading
to this compiler rev and an Eclipse built with it.

Thanks,

Andrew