With the latest gcc-arm-none-eabi-8-2018-q4-major-linux.tar.bz2 compiler tools release, g++ is very slow to compile relative to the older gcc-arm-none-eabi-7-2017-q4-major-linux.tar.bz2 release.
I am seeing it take over 3 times longer than the previous compiler. A previously 45 second build now takes 2.5 minutes.
Is this to be expected ?
Are there any compiler flags that will speed this up (less optimisations) as it is now taking a significant time to build things ?
Hi Terry,
We've just released 8-2019-q3-update. Could you please give it a try and check if you're still seeing this issue? If you are, then a narrowed down test case with commandline options would be useful.
Thanks,
Tejas.
I have just tried 8-2019-q3-update. Its compile time performance is the same as 8-2018-q4, ie 3x slower than the older 7-2017-q4.
The simple test I uploaded was compiled without any significant compiler flags: "arm-none-eabi-g++ -c -o main.o main.cpp". As stated I think compiling any C++ code appears to take 3x longer on these more recent releases.
I haven't checked actual CPU usage (I would probably have to create a huge C++ code file to really test this). Any other tests I could do at this stage, I assume the speed difference comes from the 7 to 8 update, perhaps by some new optimisation stages ?
Sorry, where did you upload the test case?
To the Arm support cases system accessible from "Support" on this website: "GCC g++ version 8 very slow to compile - CAS-127711-P6Y6X7"