From owner-freebsd-current Fri Mar 5 9:54:49 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from picalon.gun.de (picalon.gun.de [192.109.159.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A387415164 for ; Fri, 5 Mar 1999 09:54:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from andreas@klemm.gtn.com) Received: from klemm.gtn.com (pppak04.gtn.com [194.231.123.169]) by picalon.gun.de (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id SAA10426; Fri, 5 Mar 1999 18:54:22 +0100 (MET) Received: (from andreas@localhost) by klemm.gtn.com (8.9.2/8.9.2) id SAA37539; Fri, 5 Mar 1999 18:33:59 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from andreas) Date: Fri, 5 Mar 1999 18:33:59 +0100 From: Andreas Klemm To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: Chuck Robey , "David O'Brien" , The Hermit Hacker , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: gcc Message-ID: <19990305183359.A37263@titan.klemm.gtn.com> References: <31170.920242197@zippy.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.3i In-Reply-To: <31170.920242197@zippy.cdrom.com>; from Jordan K. Hubbard on Sun, Feb 28, 1999 at 02:49:57PM -0800 X-Disclaimer: A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.1-STABLE SMP Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Feb 28, 1999 at 02:49:57PM -0800, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > Please keep in mind that if, in our haste, we import a compiler that > > puts instability into FreeBSD, then we've drunk poison. The feature > > A legit concern, but also realize that all of us are talking about > 4.0 here - the new compiler would be an issue we'd have up to a full > year on before the product it's in goes mainstream. If that's not enough > time to work out the compiler issues after switching, I can't imagine > when we WILL have a better time to try and do this then. Progress > entails some pain, and if we're unwilling to suffer any at all then > progress ceases entirely. Agreed. -- Andreas Klemm http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/~andreas What gives you 90% more speed, for example, in kernel compilation ? http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/~fsmp/SMP/akgraph-a/graph1.html "NT = Not Today" (Maggie Biggs) ``powered by FreeBSD SMP'' To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message