> Performance is tolerable for a "toy system"; it took about an hour to build
> lynx (including gmake, libslang, and libtool), and it got about 8MB into
> swap space in the process - but in its defense, I had screen and ssh running
> at the time.  If I'd been running on console, it probably would have been
> quite a bit faster, especially if I'd been able to hint that gcc should always
> do -pipe.  (A lot of time goes into putting temporary files on an NFS-mounted
> /tmp.)

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