On 08/06/2011 05:14 PM, Steve Kargl wrote:
You left out the crucial hardware spec. How much memory did you have 19 years ago compared to the system today? My experience with g++ is that it will consume more memory than gcc.
That might be true - I have never experienced memory shortage *building* C and C++ in 1992 - I had 16 Mbyte of RAM at that time.
Nowadays I have 4 Gbyte of RAM, but still *bootstrapping* doesn't seem to be a problem (certain parts of the weather forecasting system these days stretch the virtual memory system, but with 4 Gbyte RAM and 11 Gbyte SWAP I still survive).
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