Date:	Wed, 7 Sep 1994 17:17:43 +22305931 (WAUST)
From:	Ron Grunwald <rgrunwal AT bluering DOT cowan DOT edu DOT au>
Subject:	Re: GCC question - why so slow ?
To:	Markus Hahn <Markus DOT Hahn AT studbox DOT uni-stuttgart DOT de>
Cc:	djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu

On Tue, 6 Sep 1994, Markus Hahn wrote:

> Hello !
> 
> Short question : why is the new version 2.60 of GCC so S-L-O-W ????
> 
> I've got an 386/40, 8MB (-> 2MB Smartdrive(TM) cache), XMS 3.0.
> Even if I compile a simple hello.c it takes more than 45 seconds from
> the C-source to an EXE file. Not to mention a 'real' program
> My standard compilation batch is
> 
>                          gcc %1.c -o %1 -gcc -lpc
> 
> Is this normal for a high end 32bit compiler or what's wrong 
> with my computer system ?
> 
> Thanx for any answers ...

I've found the same problem yesterday while experimenting with
different versions of GO32.

Currently, I'm using GCC 2.5.7 with GO32 1.11.maint5 and I get 
pretty fast compilation speeds. I've set up GO32 to use XMS memory,
which seems to be a good config. My machine is only a 386sx with 4Mb
of RAM.

Now, when I started using GO32 1.12 and started MAKing the same program
file the entire process took around 8 min.!! Frequently, the machine
would appear to be doing nothing. ie. no Hard disk access.

My suggestion to you is to make sure that you don't mix versions of
GO32 and GCC. After I restored GO32 to the prev. ver. 1.11 maint5 I
got back to the fast compilation speeds again.
If you're using GCC 2.6.0 you might also have to upgrade GO32 to 1.12,
with maintenance release possibly.

Hope this helps.

Regards, Ron.

  


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 | Author             : Ronald Grunwald                                 | 
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