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Re: Should we remove java from the default bootstrap languages?
On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 10:21 PM, Dave Korn <dave.korn@artimi.com> wrote:
> NightStrike wrote on 21 June 2008 17:08:
>
>> On 6/21/08, Diego Novillo <dnovillo> wrote:
>>> On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 11:39, H.J. Lu <hjl.tools> wrote:
>>>> It takes about 50 minutes to bootstrap gcc with -j4 on a Core 2 Quad
>>>> 2.66GHz with default language, both 32bit and 64bit enabled. If I use
>>>> --enable-checking=assert, it takes 25 minutes. Given the price of quad
>>>> core today, there is no
>>>> reason no to
>>>> use quad core for gcc build.
>>>
>>> Irrelevant.
>>
>> How is that irrelevant? If the argument is that libjava takes too
>> long to build on modern hardware, and someone else has a different
>> view of what is modern hardware where the original argument is
>> invalid...
>
> And how exactly does this help non-x86 platform users? Or people without
> the latest hardware?
>
> I don't think it aids the cause of software freedom to set a high barrier
> to entry. Nor do I think it helps recruit volunteer workers for GCC. And I
> really don't think it's right to just flippantly tell people they have to go
> out and spend big money on the latest hardware in order to be able to
> participate. Volunteers and voluntary orgs often don't have budgets or
> funding.
There is the compile-farm that is available to volunteers.
Richard.