Re: [Lse-tech] 7.52 second kernel compile

David Woodhouse (dwmw2@infradead.org)
Sun, 17 Mar 2002 13:54:40 +0000

degger@fhm.edu said:
> Interestingly -pipe doesn't give any measurable performance increases
> or even leads to a minor decrease in compile speed in my latest tests
> on bigger projects like the linux kernel or GIMP.

I believe that newer versions of GCC have a builtin preprocessor, and -pipe
forces them to use the old, slower, external cpp. 

--
dwmw2




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