CCS 6.0.1 compiling really slow

Hi Tim,

You mentioned that you just installed CCS. But you also mentioned that it is compiling much slower than it used to. What are you benchmarking the current CCS compiler performance against?

Also provide the CCS version, compiler version and device part that you are using.

Thanks

ki

I'm benchmarking the same project I have on a different computer that runs code composer version 5.  Its compiling somewhere around 10 times slower on the computer that has version 6 on it.

CCS Version:  6.0.1.00040

Used every compiler available and they all ran slow.  They are

TI v4.2.2 [TIv4.3.4]

TI v4.3.4

Ti v4.3.3

GNU v4.9.1

Device is MSP430.

Specifically MSP430FG4617

Computer Windows 7 64 bit. 

Hi,

I just started using CCS v6 and noticed the same thing when compiling a project for MSP430F5528 which I have previously developed in CCS V5.5.

I found out that CCS v6 does not execute multiple compile jobs in parallel, although the project is set to use 8 jobs. With CCS v5.5 running on my i5 (4cores, no Hyperthreading) 8 jobs cause all cores to almost 100% usage and compilation is much faster

Its so slow I don't think I will be able to use it.

I found that the problem (at least in my case) was that the parallel compilation settings were not followed. A patch has been provided by TI here