GCC 4.1: Buildable on GHz machines only?

[Hugh Sasse]

On Mon, 16 May 2005, Alexandre Oliva wrote:

> 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
         [...]

Is it pertinent to remind people of the wider spread of Free
Software, such as Bangladesh (Brave GNU World, issue 56) and Africa
(various issues of Brave GNU World Eg 53,43) where people have
considerably more difficulties keeping up with Moore's Law?

Apologies if you didn't need reminding. :-)

I approve of the spirit of the suggestion about ulimit.

         Hugh