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Re: GCC 4.1: Buildable on GHz machines only?
- From: Alexandre Oliva <aoliva at redhat dot com>
- To: Robert Dewar <dewar at adacore dot com>
- Cc: Peter Barada <peter at the-baradas dot com>, Joe dot Buck at synopsys dot COM, hjl at lucon dot org, aph at redhat dot com, dje at watson dot ibm dot com, schwab at suse dot de, rearnsha at gcc dot gnu dot org, pinskia at physics dot uc dot edu, pkoning at equallogic dot com, s dot bosscher at student dot tudelft dot nl, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, matt at 3am-software dot com, cow at compsoc dot man dot ac dot uk
- Date: 16 May 2005 15:42:04 -0300
- Subject: Re: GCC 4.1: Buildable on GHz machines only?
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On May 16, 2005, Robert Dewar <dewar@adacore.com> wrote:
> After all, you can buy from Dell today a 2.4GHz machine with a 17"
> monitor, DVD drive, and 256Meg memory for $299 complete. Sure, some
> people cannot even afford that, but it is not clear that the gcc
> project can regard this as a major user segment that should be taken
> into account.
Just step back for a second and consider that the most common
computation platform these days is cell phones. Also consider that a
number of cell phone manufacturers are adopting, or considering
adopting, GNU/Linux. Consider that at least some of them are going to
enable users to download programs into the cell phones and run them.
Also consider that not all cell phones are identical.
Now wouldn't it be nice to be able to download some useful program in
source form and build it locally on your cell phone, while on the
road? Sure, few people might be able to accomplish that without a
nice building wizard front-end, but that's doable. Would we want GCC
to be tool that prevents this vision from coming true?
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Alexandre Oliva http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/
Red Hat Compiler Engineer aoliva@{redhat.com, gcc.gnu.org}
Free Software Evangelist oliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org}