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Re: gcc 3.5 integration branch proposal
On Jan 19, 2004, at 12:21 PM, Eric Botcazou wrote:
Here is a suggestion:
For $399 you can buy from Dell a brand new Dimension 2400 with a
2.4GHz
Celeron, 400MHz front bus, 256 meg of memory, 40GB disk, 17" monitor,
and 48x CD-RW/DVD-ROM combo drive.
I have always been amazed by the reasonings starting with "you can
buy". Why
in the first place should you buy a brand new computer to do anything?
Why
can't the typical 2-3 years old model be sufficient?
That's a pretty reasonable machine at a very reasonable price.
For a professional developer based in the US, certainly. I'm not sure
GCC
should primarily target such a population though.
I would look at it this way: Why should a professional developer based
in the US try to make GCC work on anything less than this machine?
It's clearly not cost-effective to spend any significant time doing so.
--
Geoff Keating <geoffk@apple.com>