Robert Dewar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Gabriel Dos Reis wrote: | countries with obscure machines that escaped from Middle Age. | > While I know a bit of third-wrld, I have also been working in some | > western | > European countries for a sufficiant time to say that, well, far many real | > machines used there for work in univeristies and research labs still | > don't go beyond 512Mb memory; and they really would love to use GCC and GCC | > should be usable on those machines. | | And it would seem a great project for those with such limited machines to | concentrate their efforts on making improvements in this area. | | And of course we all agree on improving memory usage where possible, since | this often corresponds to improving performance even on giant machines, | | But I doubt that projects to buy small linear gains in memory usage | are mainstream very worthwhile in the long run (non-linear gains are | *always* worth going after by contrast).
I wasn't aware that people were exclusively concentrating on small linear gains. -- Gaby
