>>>>> Matt Thomas writes: Matt> That's all positive but if GCC also becomes too expensive to build then Matt> all those extra features become worthless. What is the slowest system Matt> that GCC has been recently bootstrapped on?
GCC recently was bootstrapped on a VAX. The GCC build times are not unreasonable compared to other, commercial compilers with similar functionality. And the GCC developers ave plans to address inefficiencies -- GCC 4.0 often is faster than GCC 3.4. David