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Re: GCC 4.1: Buildable on GHz machines only?
- From: Peter Barada <peter at the-baradas dot com>
- To: Joe dot Buck at synopsys dot COM
- Cc: hjl at lucon dot org, aph at redhat dot com, aoliva at redhat dot com,dje at watson dot ibm dot com, schwab at suse dot de, rearnsha at gcc dot gnu dot org,pinskia at physics dot uc dot edu, pkoning at equallogic dot com,s dot bosscher at student dot tudelft dot nl, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org,matt at 3am-software dot com, cow at compsoc dot man dot ac dot uk
- Date: Mon, 16 May 2005 08:06:25 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: GCC 4.1: Buildable on GHz machines only?
- References: <17009.2368.986169.753001@cuddles.cambridge.redhat.com> <200504281609.j3SG9ZD27524@makai.watson.ibm.com> <20050428164727.GB30649@synopsys.com> <200504281654.j3SGs0D27158@makai.watson.ibm.com> <oracncw0a1.fsf@livre.redhat.lsd.ic.unicamp.br> <20050503220342.GA23969@synopsys.com> <17016.41624.799846.161219@cuddles.cambridge.redhat.com> <20050504134157.GA5261@lucon.org> <20050504160005.GB26103@synopsys.com> <20050504161719.GA7542@lucon.org> <20050504162944.GA28196@synopsys.com>
>We're not talking about 5% speedup; if the linker starts thrashing because
>of insufficient memory you pay far more than that. And certainly anyone
>with an older computer who is dissatified with its performance, but
>doesn't have a lot of money, should look into getting more memory before
>anything else. Still, the GNU project shouldn't be telling people in the
>third world with cast-off machines that they are out of luck; to many of
>them, 256M is more than they have.
Also don't forget us embedded people that are *desperately* trying to
do native compilations using an NFSroot with limited main memory and
don't have a disk in the hardware design to swap to.
--
Peter Barada
peter@the-baradas.com