Re: "C's Biggest Mistake"

From	Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.c
Subject	Re: "C's Biggest Mistake"
Date	2018-04-15 00:37 +1200
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On 04/14/2018 11:20 PM, bartc wrote:
> On 14/04/2018 01:52, Ian Collins wrote:
>> On 04/14/2018 11:53 AM, bartc wrote:
>>> On 13/04/2018 22:57, Ian Collins wrote:
>>>> On 04/14/2018 08:04 AM, bartc wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Nevertheless, if you want to use gcc for C, that's the size of the
>>>>> download you have to deal with. With makes things a little harder.
>>>>
>>>> If the gcc source wasn't so complicated, what else could we build as a
>>>> system benchmarking tool?
>>>
>>> How long does it take? [To build, from sources, a program that can
>>> compile a .c file, to either .s or .o or to executable.]
>>
>> "It depends"!
> 
> Not even a ballpark figure? 1 second, 1 minute, 1 hour?

gcc-7.3.0 takes about 15 minutes on my desktop for 
--enable-languages=c,c++,fortran.

>> That's the whole point of a benchmark - and building all of gcc from
>> scratch is an pretty decent one.
> 
> What is it that the benchmark testing?

CPU and I/O (it runs a lot of configures).

-- 
Ian.

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