Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262291AbUKDQvF (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Nov 2004 11:51:05 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262293AbUKDQvF (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Nov 2004 11:51:05 -0500 Received: from brown.brainfood.com ([146.82.138.61]:22151 "EHLO gradall.private.brainfood.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262292AbUKDQvB (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Nov 2004 11:51:01 -0500 Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2004 10:50:38 -0600 (CST) From: Adam Heath X-X-Sender: adam@gradall.private.brainfood.com To: Chris Wedgwood cc: Christoph Hellwig , Timothy Miller , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: support of older compilers In-Reply-To: <20041103233029.GA16982@taniwha.stupidest.org> Message-ID: References: <41894779.10706@techsource.com> <20041103211353.GA24084@infradead.org> <20041103233029.GA16982@taniwha.stupidest.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 658 Lines: 18 On Wed, 3 Nov 2004, Chris Wedgwood wrote: > On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 05:06:56PM -0600, Adam Heath wrote: > > > You can't be serious that this is a problem. > > try it, say gcc 2.95 vs gcc 4.0 ... i think last i checked the older > gcc was over twice as fast I didn't deny the speed difference of older and newer compilers. But why is this an issue when compiling a kernel? How often do you compile your kernel? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/