merging for 3.4 (was Re: [Patch] Qualify min(), max() ...)

[Toon Moene]

Neil Booth wrote:

> There must be ways of getting it faster.  lcc is a *lot* faster, a lot
> smaller, and doesn't produce code that is much worse.  Its parser is well-
> written; I'd bet it's faster than LCC's CPP.  Most of our parser problems
> come from a poor tree IL and bison.
> 
> I vote we force GCC developers to bootstrap on 100MHz Pentia for 1 year.

Must be the language.

Once again I'm repeating the old adage:  People *never* complain to my 
about the speed of g77, just about the speed of the generated code.

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