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Re: GCC 4.1: Buildable on GHz machines only?

On Thu, 2005-04-28 at 10:23 -0700, Devang Patel wrote:
> On Apr 28, 2005, at 9:10 AM, Daniel Berlin wrote:
> 
> > 1. make bootstrap on a 2.4ghz p4 takes 90 minutes for me as of
> > yesterday.
> > 2. Building XLC with (C,C++,Fortran) and a single backend takes  
> > roughly
> > the same time as building GCC.  And they aren't three staging, AFAIK.
> 
> "..ain't the same ballpark, it ain't the same league,
> it ain't even the same..." :-)

Bullshit.
They are both production quality compilers.

People complain gcc bootstrap is too long. XLC at O2 (which is what they
compile at, last i looked) isn't running the IPA middle end, etc.

--Dan
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