I guess there is not much point to proposing forking a smaller, faster 
gcc off for netbsd use? gcc's slowness, which seems ot get worse with 
every version, is getting downright obscene these days. it's a shame that
netbsd has to be slowed down by gcc's faults. 

On Sun, 9 Mar 2003, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> gcc is also to blame here, gcc-2.95.3 needs much more RAM and CPU than
> the 1.4 egcs used. Some work is supposed to have been done in gcc3 for this.