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Re: gcc 3.5 integration branch proposal
Robert Dewar <dewar@gnat.com> writes:
| That being said, it seems to me to undervalue time to be using a two
| year old machine and tolerating builds that slow when a modern notebook
| with a 3GHz processor and 800MHz front bus can be obtained for under
| $2000.
A key point is that not everyone can afford changing hardware every
one/two years for that price (assuming it is possible), and even if it
were financially possible, it may not be technically or pratically
desirable. We have been through that discussion before.
| And one general comment here is that using such a notebook, I
| still find MANY things to be slow, and gcc is not the worst offender
| by any means (Mozilla's junk mail detection, while excellent, for
| example, consumes vast amounts of cycles and how Power Point manages
| to take as long as it does to come up is a mystery to me). I guess the
| software world has become really *expert* at making things take
| thousands of times longer than they should :-(
Software expertise has changed axes ;-)
-- Gaby