GCC 4.1: Buildable on GHz machines only?

[Joel Sherrill <joel@OARcorp.com>]

Peter Barada wrote:
>>>Yes, but Ralf was complaining about embedded cross-compiling development 
>>>for RTEMS. I have not tried to reply to Peter Barada who complains about 
>>>GCC inablity to be run on embedded targets directly.
>>
>>Logically Peter's situation is the same as the NetBSD issue with 
>>building and testing on old hosts.   He is running GNU/Linux on
>>ColdFire and I suspect his ColdFire target is probably faster and better 
>>equipped than the old UNIX boxes the BSD folks mentioned.
> 
> 
> Its a 266Mhz ColdFire v4e machine, about 263 BogoMips, 1/20 the
> BogoMips of my workstation, and with an NFS rootfs, it gets network
> bound pretty rapidly and runs even slower compared to a NetBSD machine
> with a local disk :)

I would have thought the CPU itself was comparable to or faster than
a 68040 or 68060 since they was always at much lower clock speeds.

Do you have any local disk or is everything NFS?  If so, that would
be killer for performance.  I remember an old pair of SparcStation 10's
we used to have.  Network builds vs. local disk was already like 5-10x
slower.

How much RAM?

--joel