Lord Isildur wrote:
> 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. 
> 

A similar thread came up on the OpenBSD Journal site
(http://www.deadly.org/). The consensus there was that increased
optimisation abilities in recent releases of gcc weren't really
beneficial to older (smaller, slower) machines. The topic was in
relation to a BSD licensed compiler called TenDRA
(http://www.tendra.org/).

Chris
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