Re: incremental compiler project

2015-09-08 Thread Diego Novillo
On Thu, Sep 3, 2015 at 1:02 PM, Jeff Law wrote: > Agreed. I think the google project went further, but with Lawrence retiring, > I think it's been abandoned. We got up to the point where we could store and re-use pre-parsed images of headers. The big problem were those headers with exposed re

Re: incremental compiler project

2015-09-04 Thread David Malcolm
On Fri, 2015-09-04 at 09:44 -0600, Jeff Law wrote: > On 09/04/2015 09:40 AM, David Kunsman wrote: > > what do you think about the sub project in the wiki: > > > > Parallel Compilation: > > > > One approach is to make the front end multi-threaded. (I've pretty > > much abandoned this idea. There are

Fwd: incremental compiler project

2015-09-04 Thread David Kunsman
I was just looking to get into a project...and the incremental project caught my eyewondering if it even practical due to the branch is over 6 years old...and merging everything with the current trunk would be a job. It seems like many of the projects on the wiki are out of date. Does anybody

Re: incremental compiler project

2015-09-04 Thread Manuel López-Ibáñez
On 4 September 2015 at 17:44, Jeff Law wrote: > On 09/04/2015 09:40 AM, David Kunsman wrote: >> >> what do you think about the sub project in the wiki: >> >> Parallel Compilation: >> >> One approach is to make the front end multi-threaded. (I've pretty >> much abandoned this idea. There are too ma

Re: incremental compiler project

2015-09-04 Thread Jeff Law
On 09/04/2015 10:14 AM, Jonathan Wakely wrote: On 4 September 2015 at 16:57, Manuel López-Ibáñez wrote: Clang++ is much faster yet it is doing more and tracking more data than cc1plus. How much faster these days? In my experience for optimized builds of large files the difference is not so imp

Re: incremental compiler project

2015-09-04 Thread Jonathan Wakely
On 4 September 2015 at 16:57, Manuel López-Ibáñez wrote: > Clang++ is much faster yet it is doing more and tracking more data > than cc1plus. How much faster these days? In my experience for optimized builds of large files the difference is not so impressive (for unoptimized builds clang is defini

Re: incremental compiler project

2015-09-04 Thread Manuel López-Ibáñez
On 4 September 2015 at 17:11, Tom Tromey wrote: > Manuel> The overall goal of the project is worthwhile, however, it is unclear > Manuel> whether the approach envisioned in the wiki page will lead to the > Manuel> desired benefits. See http://tromey.com/blog/?p=420 which is the last > Manuel> stat

Re: incremental compiler project

2015-09-04 Thread Jeff Law
On 09/04/2015 09:40 AM, David Kunsman wrote: what do you think about the sub project in the wiki: Parallel Compilation: One approach is to make the front end multi-threaded. (I've pretty much abandoned this idea. There are too many mutable tree fields, making this a difficult project. Also, thr

Re: incremental compiler project

2015-09-04 Thread David Kunsman
what do you think about the sub project in the wiki: Parallel Compilation: One approach is to make the front end multi-threaded. (I've pretty much abandoned this idea. There are too many mutable tree fields, making this a difficult project. Also, threads do not interact well with fork, which is c

Re: incremental compiler project

2015-09-04 Thread Tom Tromey
Manuel> The overall goal of the project is worthwhile, however, it is unclear Manuel> whether the approach envisioned in the wiki page will lead to the Manuel> desired benefits. See http://tromey.com/blog/?p=420 which is the last Manuel> status report that I am aware of. Yeah. I stopped working o

Re: incremental compiler project

2015-09-03 Thread Jeff Law
On 09/03/2015 10:36 AM, Manuel López-Ibáñez wrote: On 02/09/15 22:44, David Kunsman wrote: Hello, I just read over the incremental compiler project on the gcc wiki...and I am excited to try to finish it. I am just wondering if it is even wanted anymore because it is 7-8 years old. Does

Re: incremental compiler project

2015-09-03 Thread Manuel López-Ibáñez
On 02/09/15 22:44, David Kunsman wrote: Hello, I just read over the incremental compiler project on the gcc wiki...and I am excited to try to finish it. I am just wondering if it is even wanted anymore because it is 7-8 years old. Does anybody know if this project is wanted anymore? The

incremental compiler project

2015-09-02 Thread David Kunsman
Hello, I just read over the incremental compiler project on the gcc wiki...and I am excited to try to finish it. I am just wondering if it is even wanted anymore because it is 7-8 years old. Does anybody know if this project is wanted anymore?

Re: incremental compiler project

2007-07-13 Thread Mike Stump
On Jul 13, 2007, at 2:05 PM, Tom Tromey wrote: I've started work on a project to turn GCC into an incremental compiler. Sounds neat. :-) The basic idea of the project is to run GCC as a server (similar in a way to the old compile server branch) and try to minimize the amount of re-compilatio

incremental compiler project

2007-07-13 Thread Tom Tromey
I've started work on a project to turn GCC into an incremental compiler. This project is still in an investigative stage but I thought I would post some of my plans and ideas before making a branch. The primary goal of this project is improving the developer user experience by decreasing turnarou