I realise that there were excellent reasons for compiling debian 3.0 for ia64 with gcc 2.96, but I'm looking forward to woody+1 when we get to use a more recent compiler:
-rwxr-xr-x 1 willy Debian 14646395 May 3 12:00 gcc/stage1/cc1 -rwxr-xr-x 1 willy Debian 10535738 May 3 13:13 gcc/stage2/cc1 The first binary is gcc-3.1 compiled with gcc-2.96. The second is gcc-3.1 compiled with gcc-3.1. A whopping 28% reduction in size. And it looks even better if you strip them (most debian binaries are delivered stripped): -rwxr-xr-x 1 willy Debian 9778176 May 3 15:32 stage1.cc -rwxr-xr-x 1 willy Debian 5274160 May 3 15:32 stage2.cc An even more impressive 46% reduction in size. I have no idea how typical this is and I haven't attempted to quantify runtime performance yet -- it's still bootstrapping itself. But I thought these results were sufficiently interesting to comment on. -- Revolutions do not require corporate support. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
