> We (here we = the commercial company AdaCore) would be worried if > ANY of our customers were worried, but they are not, they see a > continuous effective improvement in compile speed using the latest > available hardware, and it's not a factor for them.
The Ada compiler is a little special here because our internal measures show that GCC 4.x based Ada compilers are faster than GCC 3.x based ones, all other things being equal, at least on x86/Linux. GCC 4.5 hasn't been evaluated yet though. -- Eric Botcazou