On Mar 17, 2006, at 4:39 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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
