Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262384AbUKDUwy (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Nov 2004 15:52:54 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262410AbUKDUuZ (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Nov 2004 15:50:25 -0500 Received: from prgy-npn1.prodigy.com ([207.115.54.37]:42116 "EHLO oddball.prodigy.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262427AbUKDUps (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Nov 2004 15:45:48 -0500 Message-ID: <418A9593.5070102@tmr.com> Date: Thu, 04 Nov 2004 15:48:19 -0500 From: Bill Davidsen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Adam Heath CC: Chris Wedgwood , Christoph Hellwig , Timothy Miller , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: support of older compilers References: <20041103233029.GA16982@taniwha.stupidest.org><20041103211353.GA24084@infradead.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1191 Lines: 34 Adam Heath wrote: > 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? Twice for each -bk to look for "not my fault" issues (preempt and not), usually once with some combination of Nick, Con, or Ingo patches, and then with config options depending on what's been added. Not to mention patches I cull from here and my own set of network patches. For some people I bet the limit is 24/{compile_time} per day. -- -bill davidsen (davidsen@tmr.com) "The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the last possible moment - but no longer" -me - 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/