Bootstrap times (was Re: [x86_64, herecy] Bootstrap gcc or not?)

[Jeremy Huntwork]

On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 04:28:47PM +1000, Greg Schafer wrote:
> Ok, it appears the GCC devs conveniently added a new (undocumented?)
> configure switch in 4.2 `--disable-stage1-checking' which does the right
> thing. Times for GCC-4.2.1 bootstraps without and with the switch are
> below:

Thanks. I saw this yesterday, but I didn't have the time then to look
into it any further.

There's a *little* bit of of discussion about it here:
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2007-05/msg00134.html

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JH