Hello, For scalar fields or skipped fields, gengtype produces empty loops. This patch checks for that case and breaks out if an empty loop body is detected:
--- gtype-desc.c.orig 2012-07-24 01:57:42.830007515 -0700 +++ gtype-desc.c 2012-07-24 02:10:14.530007515 -0700 @@ -89,6 +89,7 @@ { size_t i0; for (i0 = 0; i0 != l0; i0++) { + break; } } } This probably helps only for -O0 builds, but I do a lot of those. Compile time for powerpc64-unknown-linux-gnu/bits/extc++.h.gch/O2g.gch drops from "user 2m29.112s" to "user 0m30.208s" for a -O0 built cc1plus. Bootstrapped&tested on powerpc64-unknown-linux-gnu. OK? Ciao! Steven
gengtype_O0_speedup.diff
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