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Re: GCC 4.1: Buildable on GHz machines only?



On 2005-04-28, at 01:35, Joe Buck wrote:

I will agree with you on this point, but more than half of the time
to bootstrap consists of the time to build the Java library, and speeding
that up is a losing battle, as Sun keeps adding new stuff that
libgjc/classpath is then expected to clone, and the addition rate
seems to exceed Moore's Law.

Those are just symptoms of the fact that Java is an emulated machine with his own OS, which just happened to forget about any lesson in this area learned during the last 30 years. Other then this:

please.please.bePolite.toThe.niceFine.javaApi(nowAndAlways);


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