Re: [MiNT] XaAES sources for FreeMiNT 1.16.3

[Mark Duckworth <mduckworth@atari-source.org>]

Jo Even Skarstein wrote:
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> From: "Vincent Rivière" <vincent.riviere@freesbee.fr>
> Sent: Wednesday, December 09, 2009 3:19 PM
> To: <mint@lists.fishpool.fi>
> Subject: Re: [MiNT] XaAES sources for FreeMiNT 1.16.3
>
> > I don't want to say here that GCC is bad software.
> > Like any software, it has bugs. And 99.5% of the time, it works very 
> > well. It has not more bugs than other software of the same size, it has
>
> The biggest problem with gcc is not bugs. As you say, it actually 
> works very well. The real problem is that it's very, very, very, very 
> slow. Even on my Milan060 it's too slow to be used for actual 
> development. Sometimes I wish that MiNT/XaAES could be compiled with 
> PureC again. Then I could even look for and possibly fix bugs myself. 
> Now I'm just too impatient to wait for gcc to finish. I was poking 
> around XaAES about a year ago, doing some minor modifications just to 
> get familiar with the code. I gave up. I make too many errors while 
> typing, and spent too much time waiting for gcc to tell me that 
> something is wrong, but it can't tell me where. It's easier with Pure 
> C. Alt+C, and in a second I get a long, nice list of my errors, with 
> (correct!) line-numbers and all.

I think the answer to this is distcc.  Use a hosted gcc cross compiler 
on a fast linux box and set gcc to do all the work on that, putting the 
results back to your milan.  I don't know if it will work and I haven't 
had a lot of time lately, but this is how I intend to improve 
performance of my aranym build farm.

Thanks,
Mark