Many of us worry about the compiler getting slower over time, so I was pleased to see a bit of good news from Planet Debian.
Norbert Tretkowski reports on his blog at http://www.inittab.de/blog/2005/11/03#20051103_gcc33vs40 : > Comparing gcc 3.3 and 4.0 > Kernel 2.6.14 builds fine with gcc 4.0 on alpha, so I switched the build system of the Debian linux-2.6 package from gcc 3.3 to gcc 4.0 on alpha. And it seemed that gcc 4.0 is much faster when building the kernel. I started two new builds using time(1), one with gcc 3.3 and one with gcc 4.0. > Using gcc 3.3.6: 56692.17s user 2784.40s system 97% cpu 16:54:01.65 total > Using gcc 4.0.2: 39189.33s user 2417.85s system 96% cpu 11:57:52.48 total > 5 hours less... and the kernel still works fine.
