From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Jan 5 14:24:40 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EBC8737B401 for ; Sun, 5 Jan 2003 14:24:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from rwcrmhc51.attbi.com (rwcrmhc51.attbi.com [204.127.198.38]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6FCA043ED1 for ; Sun, 5 Jan 2003 14:24:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from swear@attbi.com) Received: from localhost.localdomain ([12.242.158.67]) by rwcrmhc51.attbi.com (rwcrmhc51) with ESMTP id <2003010522243805100nj0g6e>; Sun, 5 Jan 2003 22:24:38 +0000 Received: from localhost.localdomain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.localdomain (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h05MRpBs024215; Sun, 5 Jan 2003 14:27:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from swear@attbi.com) Received: (from jojo@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id h05MRkeG024214; Sun, 5 Jan 2003 14:27:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from swear@attbi.com) To: Brett Glass Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Bystander shot by a spam filter References: <4.3.2.7.2.20030105120224.029377d0@localhost> <3E18073C.68182FE4@mindspring.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20030104201251.029387d0@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20030104112015.026a5530@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20030104201251.029387d0@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20030104202908.03c3b100@localhost> <20030105073804.GA72674@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20030105074923.GA4956@papagena.rockefeller.edu> <3E18073C.68182FE4@mindspring.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20030105120224.029377d0@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20030105125940.0293f4e0@localhost> From: swear@attbi.com (Gary W. Swearingen) Date: 05 Jan 2003 14:27:46 -0800 In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20030105125940.0293f4e0@localhost> Message-ID: Lines: 16 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Brett Glass writes: > 20% of a 3 GHz machine is a lot of cycles. Roughy 20% of them. You'd have to sell a whole lot of compilers to balance the cost of a replacement compiler with the savings of 20% fewer computers that run the compilers, being especially hard since there are many fewer compilers than computers. Taking this to the free software world, 20% would hardly enough to merit tying up a team of gcc-replacement programmers, keeping them away from more useful (in general) projects they could effect in 100% sort of ways. There's evidence in the fact that nobody's found it worthwhile in the last decade, even when the percentage was much larger than 20%. -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message