On Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 10:05:13PM -0700, Jason Thorpe wrote: > Except it's not just bootstrapping GCC. It's everything. When the > NetBSD Project switched from 2.95.3 to 3.3, we had a noticeably > increase in time to do the "daily" builds because the 3.3 compiler > was so much slower at compiling the same OS source code. And we're > talking almost entirely C code, here.
We are well aware that 3.3 was slower, but we believe that 4.0 is in many cases significantly faster than 3.3. Try it and see what you think.