Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262297AbUKDRFg (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Nov 2004 12:05:36 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262299AbUKDRFg (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Nov 2004 12:05:36 -0500 Received: from turing-police.cc.vt.edu ([128.173.14.107]:36575 "EHLO turing-police.cc.vt.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262297AbUKDRFP (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Nov 2004 12:05:15 -0500 Message-Id: <200411041704.iA4H4sdZ014948@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.7.1 10/11/2004 with nmh-1.1-RC3 To: Adam Heath Cc: Chris Wedgwood , Christoph Hellwig , Timothy Miller , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: support of older compilers In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 04 Nov 2004 10:50:38 CST." From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu References: <41894779.10706@techsource.com> <20041103211353.GA24084@infradead.org> <20041103233029.GA16982@taniwha.stupidest.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_1647897724P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 04 Nov 2004 12:04:53 -0500 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1082 Lines: 33 --==_Exmh_1647897724P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Thu, 04 Nov 2004 10:50:38 CST, Adam Heath said: > 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? If you're working on older hardware (note the number of people on this list still using 500mz Pentium3 and similar), and a kernel developer, the difference between 2 hours to build a kernel and 4 hours to build a kernel matters quite a bit. --==_Exmh_1647897724P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 iD8DBQFBimE0cC3lWbTT17ARArfbAKCpjL6sYpCpLpGVkR0DBH7UczSW9wCgq4nw CqN2qzLG9XKtCGnIpxoHdAI= =yIvt -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_1647897724P-- - 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/