>>>>> "Robert" == Robert Dewar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Robert> Peter Barada wrote:
>>> 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.
Robert> Sure it would be nice if GCC could operate well on obsolete
Robert> machines but you can't expect the mainline development to pay
Robert> too much attention to extreme cases like this. After all, you
Robert> can buy from Dell today a 2.4GHz machine with a 17" monitor,
Robert> DVD drive, and 256Meg memory for $299 complete.
Certainly. But GCC doesn't build well at all on such a machine. It
seems to me that the expectation right now is at least a gig or two of
RAM. My machine roughly fits your description except for having 512
meg of RAM, and builds on it are ok only if you avoid Java.
Robert> Perhaps a separate project dedicated to old tiny machines is
Robert> the way to go.
I.e., all non-GHz platforms should be on the obsolete list?
paul
