GCC 4.1: Buildable on GHz machines only?

[Peter Barada]

>We're not talking about 5% speedup; if the linker starts thrashing because
>of insufficient memory you pay far more than that.  And certainly anyone
>with an older computer who is dissatified with its performance, but
>doesn't have a lot of money, should look into getting more memory before
>anything else.  Still, the GNU project shouldn't be telling people in the
>third world with cast-off machines that they are out of luck; to many of
>them, 256M is more than they have.

Also don't forget us embedded people that are *desperately* trying to
do native compilations using an NFSroot with limited main memory and
don't have a disk in the hardware design to swap to.

-- 
Peter Barada
peter@the-baradas.com