Greywolf writes:

>50 percent?  That's half -- a big win in anyone's book.  That means that
>my build of the toolchain is only taking 13 minutes instead of 26.

As long as you don't actually compile anything, that is.

>Even if it drops to 20% in the worst case, that's still significant.
>That means that my build of the toolchain is taking 13 minutes instead
>of 16:15.

As long as you don't actually compile anything, that is.

>I have no comment appropriate for this discussion regarding any sort
>of bias on other operating systems.  They're out there, they're not going
>away any time soon, and some of them appear to have some good ideas.

Me neither... but that's just me.

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  Matthias Buelow;  mkb@{mukappabeta.de,informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de}