Jakub Jelinek wrote:
Looking at last gcc build times (not unusual, though I really
remember
arm taking much longer than that, e.g. 4.7.0-0.11.fc17 took almost 17
hours on both arm architectures), from
http://*koji.fedoraproject.org/packages/gcc/4.7.0/0.20.fc17/data/logs/*/state.log :
i686 4h18m
x86_64 1h25m
ppc 4h12m
ppc64 4h16m
s390 6h27m
s390x 6h04m
armv5tel 26h20m
armv7hl 24h17m
So even speeding this up twice means it is still 2x slower than the
slowest other secondary architecture.
Ouch!!!
That shows that ARM should be the LAST architecture we consider for primary
status rather than the first. (That said, I don't think it makes sense to
make PPC primary again or to make S/390 primary. They don't have anywhere
near the market share. But IMHO ARM doesn't have the market share either.)
Kevin Kofler