On Sat, Apr 02, 2005 at 01:10:42AM -0500, Andrew Pinski wrote: > >Memory bloat is a problem for embedded systems. Attitudes about just > >"buy > >another gigabyte" is why i use C for everything for speed, portability, > >compactness, and conciseness of design. > > But you are not compiling on the embedded machine :). > > That is the point of Mike Stump, nothing else.
We should still care about memory consumption, because older machines sometimes have limited expandability (there are laptops added today that cannot take more than 512Mb, and that's a current machine). Folks in third-world countries with cast-off machines should be able to use GCC.
