On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 12:05:06PM -0500, 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. 

The problem is that maintaining a toolchain, fixing bugs, improving it
and adding support for new processors/platforms to it is a huge project.
NetBSD doesn't have the manpower for that.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 24 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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