https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=67396
--- Comment #5 from Paul Pluzhnikov <ppluzhnikov at google dot com> --- > please do before you report compile time regressions. Ok. Here are the new numbers from current trunk built with --enable-checking=release (nothing's changed that I can see; still very slow): for j in 500 1000 2000 3000; do perl ./gen_bz18872.pl $j > t.c ; (time gcc-svn-r227326-rel/bin/gcc -c -O2 t.c) |& grep user; done user 0m1.488s user 0m12.010s user 1m40.353s user 5m47.668s Here is the -ftime-report: perl ./gen_bz18872.pl 2000 > t.c && gcc-svn-r227326-rel/bin/gcc -c -O2 t.c -ftime-report Execution times (seconds) phase setup : 0.00 ( 0%) usr 0.00 ( 0%) sys 0.00 ( 0%) wall 1066 kB (19%) ggc phase parsing : 0.02 ( 0%) usr 0.00 ( 0%) sys 0.02 ( 0%) wall 1486 kB (27%) ggc phase opt and generate : 100.30 (100%) usr 0.00 ( 0%) sys 100.43 (100%) wall 2997 kB (54%) ggc trivially dead code : 0.00 ( 0%) usr 0.00 ( 0%) sys 0.01 ( 0%) wall 0 kB ( 0%) ggc df scan insns : 0.01 ( 0%) usr 0.00 ( 0%) sys 0.00 ( 0%) wall 0 kB ( 0%) ggc preprocessing : 0.02 ( 0%) usr 0.00 ( 0%) sys 0.01 ( 0%) wall 948 kB (17%) ggc lexical analysis : 0.00 ( 0%) usr 0.00 ( 0%) sys 0.01 ( 0%) wall 0 kB ( 0%) ggc dead store elim1 : 100.17 (100%) usr 0.00 ( 0%) sys 100.29 (100%) wall 171 kB ( 3%) ggc dead store elim2 : 0.10 ( 0%) usr 0.00 ( 0%) sys 0.10 ( 0%) wall 171 kB ( 3%) ggc scheduling 2 : 0.02 ( 0%) usr 0.00 ( 0%) sys 0.03 ( 0%) wall 1558 kB (28%) ggc TOTAL : 100.32 0.00 100.45 5558 kB perf report: Samples: 406K of event 'cycles', Event count (approx.): 372444339282 32.97% cc1 cc1 [.] find_base_term(rtx_def*) 25.58% cc1 cc1 [.] get_addr(rtx_def*) [clone .part.33] 17.70% cc1 cc1 [.] rtx_equal_for_memref_p(rtx_def const*, rtx_def const*) 11.33% cc1 cc1 [.] memrefs_conflict_p(int, rtx_def*, int, rtx_def*, long) [clone .constprop.107] 5.79% cc1 cc1 [.] addr_side_effect_eval(rtx_def*, int, int) [clone .constprop.108] 2.43% cc1 cc1 [.] cselib_sp_based_value_p(cselib_val*) 2.34% cc1 cc1 [.] ix86_find_base_term(rtx_def*) 1.41% cc1 cc1 [.] cselib_have_permanent_equivalences() 0.14% cc1 cc1 [.] record_store(rtx_def*, dse_bb_info_type*)