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Re: gcc 3.5 integration branch proposal


> That's a pretty reasonable machine at a very reasonable 
> price. I know it's a little ahead of what some people might 
> have, but I think it is still a reasonable benchmark machine.

There are many people running *BSD and Linux machines who may 
not be doing heavy development, but still need to compile the
latest mplayer or Mozilla sources. Some of them are students
who have a completely working machine, virtually no income
and no need to buy a new computer besides GCC. GCC and mplayer
are the only two programs which tax my five year old CPU over
twenty seconds. Saying I should just spend $400 to upgrade
a machine that works just fine to support an application which
ran on a VAX just fine at one point in time seems a little 
unreasonable.

David Starner - dvdeug@debian.org
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