[Tinycc-devel] RE :Re: Fastest TCC version

[Christian JULLIEN]

You may experiment more gcc aggressive optimization options to improve tcc compilation speed.
e.g. -O3 -flto -finline-functions -fomit-frame-pointer -funroll-loops -finline-limit=4096 ...

Another possible improvement is to play with gcc profiled compilation (see -fprofile-xxx on http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-4.7.2/gcc/Optimize-Options.html#Optimize-Options).
The idea is to compile tcc with profile mode on, run tcc to compile your program, then use collected data to compile tcc a second time with help of collected data to optimize even more.

Please note that doing so may **decrease** speed since optimization is a black magic and there is no general rules. Some optimizations can really improve speed. I advice you to try ONE optimization at a time.

With the correct set of optimizations turned on, you may save something between 20 - 50% in compilation speed.

Christian


> ----- Message d'origine -----
> De : "Daniel Glöckner" <address@hidden>
> Date ven. 21/06/2013 08:34 (GMT +02:00)
> À : "address@hidden" <address@hidden>
> Objet : Re: [Tinycc-devel] Fastest TCC version
>
> On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 05:26:05AM +0530, Sherjil Ozair wrote:
> > Could anyone direct me to the fastest TCC version that is there right now
> > for compile-time?
> > 
> > I downloaded 0.9.26 from http://bellard.org/tcc/. Is this the fastest one?
> > I expect not, since this is quite an old version.
>
> That's a strange question. We don't try to improve the compile-time.
> I suspect the speed to be almost the same across releases with the
> later ones being slightly slower due to improved error checking
> and code optimization.
>
>   Daniel
>
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