Re: Looking into LLVM

[Rahul Sundaram <sundaram fedoraproject org>]

On 10/26/2009 08:15 PM, Adam Jackson wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-10-26 at 19:07 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>> On 10/26/2009 07:03 PM, Adam Jackson wrote:
>>> On Sun, 2009-10-25 at 21:05 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>>>> Has anyone been looking into building Fedora with it to see how the
>>>> performance impact is?
>>>
>>> I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that the dominating factor in
>>> our performance is the code itself.
>>
>> I meant performance, primarily in terms of speed of compilation. Not the
>> code itself.
> 
> Suppose it's faster.  Say even by a factor of 100.  So what?  What
> problem would that solve?

The problem of slow compilation? :-)

Rahul