From: "Steven Bosscher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2008 00:09:26 +0200
> What is far more worrying to me, actually, is that libjava grows > bigger and bigger and bigger with every release, so that testing it > costs developers who care zilch about java (i.e. most people) get > penalized more and more with increased bootstrap and test times. I agree and will admit that this is the one thing that has curtailed severely my contributions to GCC in the past 4 to 5 years. I used to be able to bootstrap gcc fully in minutes on average hardware 6 or so years ago. Those days are long gone. On my largest 64 cpu and 128 cpu boxes it takes forever these days. The libjava build is notoriously not helped by parallelization because certain compiles are extremely expensive, which effectively single-threads the build.
