3.4.167 –xprofile_ircache[=path]

(SPARC) Save and reuse compilation data between collect and use profile phases.

Use with -xprofile=collect|use to improve compilation time during the use phase by reusing compilation data saved from the collect phase.

If specified, path will override the location where the cached files are saved. By default, these files will be saved in the same directory as the object file. Specifying a path is useful when the collect and use phases happen in two different places.

A typical sequence of commands might be:

demo% f95 -xO5 -xprofile=collect -xprofile_ircache t1.c t2.c
demo% a.out     collects feedback data
demo% f95 -xO5 -xprofile=use -xprofile_ircache t1.c t2.c

With large programs, compilation time in the use phase can improve significantly by saving the intermediate data in this manner. But this will be at the expense of disk space, which could increase considerably.