>We're not talking about 5% speedup; if the linker starts thrashing because >of insufficient memory you pay far more than that. And certainly anyone >with an older computer who is dissatified with its performance, but >doesn't have a lot of money, should look into getting more memory before >anything else. Still, the GNU project shouldn't be telling people in the >third world with cast-off machines that they are out of luck; to many of >them, 256M is more than they have.
Also don't forget us embedded people that are *desperately* trying to do native compilations using an NFSroot with limited main memory and don't have a disk in the hardware design to swap to. -- Peter Barada [EMAIL PROTECTED]
