C++ bootstrap of GCC - still useful ?

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 1:03 PM, Toon Moene <toon@moene.org> wrote:

> BTW, the ultimate reason I asked was that it turned out that running an
> ordinary quad core PC to the max doesn't come for free.
>
> Last month I got past year's electricity bill - it turns out that I am now
> (16 hours of weather forecasting and 4 hours of GCC bootstrapping per day)
> using 3200 KWh a year - to the tune of 1100 Euros.

Ouch! :-/

> So the question whether a run is useful is certainly relevant :-)

Indeed :-)