On Tue, 2018-03-06 at 11:14 +0100, Martin Liška wrote: > Hello. > > Many significant changes has landed in mainline and will be released > as GCC 8.1. > I decided to use various GCC configs we have and test how there > configuration differ > in size and also binary size. > > This is first part where I measured binary size, speed comparison > will follow. > Configuration names should be self-explaining, the 'system-*' is > built done > without bootstrap with my system compiler (GCC 7.3.0). All builds are > done > on my Intel Haswell machine. > > Feel free to reply if you need any explanation. > Martin
Some possibly silly questions: (a) was this done with: --enable-checking=release ? (b) is this measuring cc1 ? (c) are the units bytes? (so ~183MB for the unstripped system-O2- native cc1, ~25MB after stripping?) (d) do you have comparable data for gcc 7? Thanks Dave
