From owner-freebsd-current Thu Jun 20 20:04:02 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id UAA09944 for current-outgoing; Thu, 20 Jun 1996 20:04:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jolt.eng.umd.edu (jolt.eng.umd.edu [129.2.102.5]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAA09917 for ; Thu, 20 Jun 1996 20:03:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from skipper.eng.umd.edu (skipper.eng.umd.edu [129.2.98.208]) by jolt.eng.umd.edu (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id XAA13707; Thu, 20 Jun 1996 23:03:34 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from chuckr@localhost) by skipper.eng.umd.edu (8.7.5/8.7.3) id XAA07946; Thu, 20 Jun 1996 23:03:33 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 20 Jun 1996 23:03:33 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey X-Sender: chuckr@skipper.eng.umd.edu To: James Raynard cc: peter@spinner.dialix.com, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: When gcc-2.7.2 hits ctm In-Reply-To: <199606202223.WAA05618@jraynard.demon.co.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 20 Jun 1996, James Raynard wrote: > > And the gcc delta wont be 25MB at all if I have my way. > [...] > > so by the time it's all over, there may be a doubling of the delta size > > to nearly 740K (or 1MB encoded). > > As someone who has been "whingeing" recently, I'd like to thank Peter > for taking the trouble to explain in public what he intends to do and > giving advance warning so that people can take avoiding action if they > so wish. > > Personally, I'm looking forward to downloading it and seeing if the > code I've worked on will stand up to its exacting scrutiny 8-) Let me second that. I guess I don't have to worry about a 25 MB mail hit, and since Peter went to so much trouble to test out the approaches to the problem, I guess sanity will privail. Nice going, and thanks! ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@eng.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 9120 Edmonston Ct #302 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and n3lxx, both FreeBSD (301) 220-2114 | version 2.2 current -- and great FUN! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------