24 Feb
2007
24 Feb
'07
3:57 p.m.
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Stefan O'Rear wrote: > exec gcc -o yhi -O2 -funit-at-a-time src/runtime/BCKernel/sanity.c src/runtime/BCKernel/basepath.c [...] depends/ctypes/libffi/src/x86/ffi.c depends/ctypes/libffi/src/x86/sysv.S - -lm -lpthread -ldl -lgmp -I. -Idepends/ctypes/libffi/include - -Idepends/ctypes/libffi/src/x86 -Idepends/ctypes/libffi - -DVERSION=\"0.7.0-20070224144350-custom\" -DX86 A few of those paths passed to the compiler include "x86" (also, -DX86). Maybe the choice of files (and other compiler flags), in order to support the FFI on multiple architectures, isn't completely trivial? > IE, less than 6x the time needed to compile a Haskell "hello world" > with comparable optimization settings. (For those less familiar with > ghc options, -funit-at-a-time means whole program optimization in this > context.) We probably don't need separate compilation, let alone > dependency generation. (ghc->gcc) yes http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-4.1.2/gcc/Optimize-Options.html "Compiling multiple files at once to a single output file (and using - -funit-at-a-time) will allow the compiler to use information gained from all of the files when compiling each of them." It seems, looking at different versions' manuals, gcc 4.1 automatically enables -funit-at-a-time with -O or greater gcc 4.0 automatically enables -funit-at-a-time with -O2 or greater gcc 3.4 (when the flag was introduced) never automatically enables it. So the effect of putting the flag there seems to be better optimization for gcc 3.4 and error for gcc 3.3 and below. Is it worth mentioning the flag? (Also, is yhi supposed to support C compilers other than "gcc", which, among other things, probably don't have that flag?) In any case, you are probably right about that optimization effect when compiling together multiple files at the same time, that it is a good effect, assuming it makes the build process less complicated or at least not more so! Isaac -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFF4Ka7HgcxvIWYTTURAnuDAJ0WFCz4S3hbNRSihO/zj3/aZMocVwCfSblM RLklk5YRdNeDC6nLlivM+dU= =LNM/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----