GCC 3.3 compile speed regression - AN ANSWER

[Michael S. Zick]

On Monday 10 February 2003 04:01 pm, Toon Moene wrote:
> Phil Edwards wrote:-
>
> >For speeding up compilation times?  What changes would they make in such
> >a fork that couldn't be made in the mainline compiler?
>
> Well, let's face it: It's easier to fork gcc than to rewrite Linux in
> Fortran, where they wouldn't have the slow-compile-problem.
>
> :-)
Linux in Fortran...  Love It!
Just the sort of thing I should have thought of myself.
Mike

Hmm... 
Now where did I put that compiler Signetics wrote in Fortran...
Perhaps on the 8 inch floppys...