On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 07:31:47PM +0000, Christian Weisgerber wrote:
> On 2017-04-19, Heiko <bd09c6fmxoq2...@intermezzo.net> wrote:
> 
> > I'm using current on amd64 (Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2600 CPU @ 3.40GHz,
> > 3411.91 MHz)
> >
> > I noticed that with clang it needs 109 minutes for "make build" and
> > before with gcc 32 minutes.
> 
> Not sure what you mean by "performance" in the subject.  We're not
> building anything with clang yet, apart from clang itself.  We have
> simply added clang.  The rest of the build is identical.
> 
> And yes, clang is a big C++ program and C++ code compiles s l o w l y.
> 
> > Is this a normal behavior?
> 
> The exact numbers are a bit odd, but generally speaking, yes, adding
> clang has substantially increased the build time.  I see about a
> doubling on Xeon E3-12xx-based machines for make -j4 build.


I'm happy as long as building the complete base system takes less than a
day.  I'm more concerned with the compiler generating good code, to be
honest.

Cheers,
Kusalananda

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