gcc+gcj build-times?

Wed Feb 22 17:28:00 GMT 2006

David Daney writes:
 > Andrew Haley wrote:
 > > Norman Hendrich writes:
 > > > Any insights as how to speed up build-times or why AWT/Swing might 
 > > > end up crawling under gcj are really appreciated.
 > > 
 > > The solution for speeding up build times is pretty obvious: you just
 > > don't have enough RAM. It might be that we could reorganize things a
 > > bit, but at some point we have to link the library, and that takes
 > > memory.
 > 
 > If you search the gcc@ list you can find some threads about problems 
 > with gnu make. It is said that using a version of make from the CVS 
 > HEAD makes a big difference on memory limited machines.
Yes, I remember that. If you (Norman, I mean) have a look at the
build when it's swapping, please let us know exactly what is running
at that time. (You can just stop the compilation with Ctrl-Z and use
`ps ww'.) That will let us know where the memory problems are.
Andrew.