On Wed, 2010-04-21 at 14:03 -0400, Robert Dewar wrote: > I do realize that some people are running gcc on very old > machines, that particularly happens say in developing > countries or with students or hobbyists using old cast > off machines.
For those developping free software the compile farm has some nice iron: http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/CompileFarm > And for those compile time is a problem, > but for out Ada users, many of whom have absolutely giant > programs of millions of lines, compile time speed has not > been an issue (we would know if it was, people would > tell us, they tell us of ANY problems they have). > > The one exception is that native compilation on VMS > is slow, but that's a consequence of the VMS file > system, where opening lots of small files is slow. > We are planning to encourage people using VMS to > switch to using PC-based cross-compilation. In my (limited) experience for daily development link times on the Windows platform for big Ada applications are an issue too, not compile times. Laurent
