> On 8 Nov 2022, at 07:36, Sam James <s...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > > >> On 8 Nov 2022, at 07:34, Eric Botcazou <botca...@adacore.com> wrote: >> >>> I build GCC regularly from the weekly snapshots >>> and so the decompression time adds up. >> >> But is very largely dwarfed by the build time of the compiler, isn't it? >> > > It is. It's no big deal if the patch isn't accepted, it's just very cheap to > do > for a decent benefit. > > In particular, there's a lot of cases where I need to go through a cycle > of checking various patches still apply and rebasing. > > I won't be offended if the view is to not bother though. :)
Also: sometimes as a distribution we want to make some changes to our build scripts and do a --disable-bootstrap and otherwise minimal build repeatedly. It's useful there as well. (A recent example was when playing with doing a separate JIT build, as the docs recommend.)
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