[fedora-java] Performance issues with gcc-4.1.0-0.10.i386

[Andrew Haley]

Tom Tromey writes:
 > >>>>> "Andrew" == Andrew Overholt <overholt at redhat.com> writes:
 > 
 > Andrew> I am seeing some performance issues with the latest gcc
 > Andrew> rawhide RPM set.  I tried a build of Eclipse with them and it
 > Andrew> took 650 minutes 42 seconds where it used to take about 20 -
 > Andrew> 30 minutes (this is just for the bytecode, BTW).
 > 
 > I didn't see a note on this list... Andrew Haley and Jakub Jelinek
 > tracked this down to bad debug info generated by an odd combination of
 > events (rpm build flags mixing weirdly with the x86 setup in the
 > compiler triggering some ld bug, or something like that).  This will
 > be fixed in a forthcoming compiler rev.

To be honest, we haven't yet proved that this is the real problem --
we won't know until we try the new compiler rev.  But IMO it's a
likely contender.

Andrew.