In article <199601312134.NAA01908@netcom9.netcom.com>,
Eric S. Hvozda <hvozda@netcom.com> wrote:
> > Anyway, 2 days is still about 47.9 hours too long to change a simple
> > thing like that. 
> 
> Whoa!  Who here is building kernels in 6 mins flat from scratch?
> 
> (takes me 28 mins on a DX4-100 i386, 512Mb IDE, 20Mb RAM)

I don't know if anybody is, but that was my original point: for
something hat can easily be made a run-time decision with little or no
performance impact, having to recompile is annoying.