Well, the thing is that diagnostic is much better with newer GCC versions so I like compiling with somewhat recent compiler. I would not want to roll back to 2.95 something. Plus, with C++ it seems like every new version has a new ABI so switching versions is a major PITA.
I thought that work on improving compile times was on its way but from the posted results it looks like that particular snapshot was like 2 times worse than 3.3 (2:35 vs 1:12 for POV-Ray compile, 1:08 vs 0:36 for Lame). Hmm.. I just noticed that results are much better on Pentium box, I wonder why is that... Still GCC 4.0 is again slower than previous versions. That is my gripe - it gets slower and slower with every released version.
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I thought that work on improving compile times was on its way but from the posted results it looks like that particular snapshot was like 2 times worse than 3.3 (2:35 vs 1:12 for POV-Ray compile, 1:08 vs 0:36 for Lame). Hmm.. I just noticed that results are much better on Pentium box, I wonder why is that... Still GCC 4.0 is again slower than previous versions. That is my gripe - it gets slower and slower with every released version.
Well, world consists not only of users but some people also develop stuff that you run. And for them compile times are also very important.
So what, 4.0 will be even slower? Great news. NOT!