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Re: GCC 4.1: Buildable on GHz machines only?

>>>>> Matt Thomas writes:

Matt> That's all positive but if GCC also becomes too expensive to build then
Matt> all those extra features become worthless.  What is the slowest system
Matt> that GCC has been recently bootstrapped on?

	GCC recently was bootstrapped on a VAX.

	The GCC build times are not unreasonable compared to other,
commercial compilers with similar functionality.  And the GCC developers
ave plans to address inefficiencies -- GCC 4.0 often is faster than GCC
3.4.

David
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