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> On Jun 1, 10:48am, Kanoj Sarcar wrote:
> > Subject: Re: kernel compile time
> > >
> > > Kanoj, earlier you had said the wall time looks bad.
> > > I don't understand. For the 1-way make, it took 13:28 == 808 seconds,
> > > of which 742sec were in user mode (> 90%) ... which is typical of
> > > large compilation workloads.
> >
> > 13:28 seconds for a 1 way make is just not an acceptable number.
> > Refer to John's recent mail about AIM7 performance too.
> >
>
> I think you guys may be neglecting the issue of the compiler itself.
> Does anyone have any idea how good (or bad) the optimized code generated by
> our mips-gnu compiler is? If it's not generating good optimized
> code, then all single cpu performance results are going to be lousy,
> be they AIM7 or running the compiler itself.
>
> - leo
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>
> --
> Leo Dagum SGI Mountain View, CA 94043 (650-933-2179)
>
Yes, you are right, we should probably think of this. Maybe its not that
worthwhile thinking of single processor performance right now.
Kanoj
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