Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2004 12:15:47 -0600 (CST)
From: Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org>
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
cc: Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
       Timothy Miller <miller@techsource.com>,
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Subject: Re: support of older compilers 
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On Thu, 4 Nov 2004,  wrote:

> 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.

Use faster hardware to compile a kernel.  Cross-compiling is easy for kernels.

Plus, at least on i386/debian, kernel-package makes it easy.

Again, your argument doesn't hold water.
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