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Re: gcc compile-time performance
- From: dewar at gnat dot com (Robert Dewar)
- To: gdr at codesourcery dot com, toon at moene dot indiv dot nluug dot nl
- Cc: dewar at gnat dot com, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, scott at coyotegulch dot com
- Date: Sat, 18 May 2002 16:07:06 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: gcc compile-time performance
<<I can put this stronger: The very reason our numerical weather
prediction software is still written in Fortran 77 is due to the fact
that that way we can be assured of the collaboration of [the Weather
Institutes] of smaller European countries, where Universities can't
afford Real Unix Workstations.
>>
What exactly is a "real unix work station". Given that the best cost
performance on small scale unix platforms now comes from running
GNU/Linux on a cheap PC, I find that hard to understand.