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SubjectRe: support of older compilers
On Fri, 5 Nov 2004, Willy Tarreau wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 04, 2004 at 12:17:01PM -0600, Adam Heath wrote:
> > > You're posting to the kernel development list--many people here recompile dozens
> > > of times a day.
> >
> > So find the fastest computer you have, and use that. There is no need to
> > compile a kernel on the machine it will be run on.
>
> Uhh ?
>
> What are you smoking ? We all have the fastest computers we can buy, and
> since a kernel still takes a few minutes to compile on those computers,
> we try to use the fastest compilers to save *HOURS* at the end of the day.
> Nobody ever claimed that we all spend our time compiling on the target
> system. I wonder if thas would be possible on a 16 MB/200 MHz MIPS ;-)

Why not? 16 MB and 200 MHz used to be plenty!

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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