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RE: gcc compile-time performance
- From: "Scott Robert Ladd" <scott at coyotegulch dot com>
- To: "Robert Dewar" <dewar at gnat dot com>, <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Sat, 18 May 2002 11:41:20 -0400
- Subject: RE: gcc compile-time performance
Robert Dewar wrote:
> In any case, the point I was making was that this is a discussion about
> compile time performance (see subject line), and the use of slow target
> processors in embedded environments is, I still maintain, irrelevant
> to that particular discussion.
And I still maintain that the speed of compilation on "old" hardware is
important because people still use "old" hardware for development. To
suggest a commercial alternative, as you have, defeats one of the goals of
free software.
The attitude that "compile time performance is irrelevent" is short-sighted,
at best.
I guess we shall just agree to disagree on this issue.
..Scott