From: Paul Koning <pkoning@equallogic.com>
To: dewar@gnat.com
Cc: coyote@coyotegulch.com, gdr@integrable-solutions.net, gcc@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: gcc 3.5 integration branch proposal
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 18:30:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <16396.8749.808340.551494@gargle.gargle.HOWL> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <400C17CD.5080408@gnat.com>
>>>>> "Robert" == Robert Dewar <dewar@gnat.com> writes:
Robert> Paul Koning wrote:
>> It wouldn't satisfy me. C++ is just as important as C, and it is
>> completely unreasonable to tell people that any host other than a
>> year or two is "marginal".
>>
>> A point to keep in mind is that laptops make good hosts, but
>> laptops are more memory-limited than desktops.
Robert> Not really true these days. Most laptops have supported a
Robert> gigabyte for years, and most laptops of today support two
Robert> gigabytes.
Robert> But that should be far beyond what is reasonably needed
Robert> anyway. I think what would be most helpful is to try to agree
Robert> very specifically on what is reasonable.
Good. My view on laptops is different from yours, but by adopting the
principle you suggest we don't have to sort out that difference.
Robert> For example, we might say:
Robert> All typical existing C++ code should be able to be compiled
Robert> on a 256 meg PC running GNU/Linux without significant
Robert> thrashing.
Robert> That seems a reasonable expectation. Then we consider any
Robert> violation of this as a bug, to be fixed like any other bug.
Another thing we'd want to be able to talk about is the minimum config
that will bootstrap gcc without a lot of thrashing. For a while, that
config was dramatically larger than 256 (since it thrashed badly on my
384 meg laptop).
paul
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-01-19 18:30 UTC|newest]
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2004-01-19 16:24 Paul Koning
2004-01-19 17:46 ` Robert Dewar
2004-01-19 17:51 ` Gabriel Dos Reis
2004-01-19 18:12 ` Scott Robert Ladd
2004-01-19 18:20 ` Gabriel Dos Reis
2004-01-19 18:29 ` Giovanni Bajo
2004-01-19 18:22 ` Robert Dewar
2004-01-19 18:30 ` Paul Koning [this message]
2004-01-20 10:46 ` Russ Allbery
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2004-01-20 5:19 D. Starner
2004-01-20 3:00 D. Starner
2004-01-20 3:14 ` Andrew Pinski
2004-01-13 23:31 Michael Elizabeth Chastain
2004-01-10 0:11 Geoffrey Keating
2004-01-10 0:25 ` Phil Edwards
2004-01-10 0:47 ` Geoffrey Keating
2004-01-10 15:41 ` Phil Edwards
2004-01-12 18:47 ` Geoffrey Keating
2004-01-12 19:22 ` Mark Mitchell
2004-01-12 23:42 ` Geoff Keating
2004-01-12 23:48 ` Zack Weinberg
2004-01-12 23:49 ` Mark Mitchell
2004-01-13 0:06 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2004-01-13 0:16 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2004-01-13 0:22 ` Steven Bosscher
2004-01-13 19:48 ` Gerald Pfeifer
2004-01-13 0:28 ` Joe Buck
2004-01-13 0:46 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2004-01-13 1:13 ` Jan Hubicka
2004-01-13 0:11 ` Ziemowit Laski
2004-01-13 0:15 ` Steven Bosscher
2004-01-13 0:23 ` Ziemowit Laski
2004-01-13 0:37 ` Steven Bosscher
2004-01-13 0:45 ` Jan Hubicka
2004-01-13 0:55 ` Ziemowit Laski
2004-01-13 0:54 ` Ziemowit Laski
2004-01-13 1:01 ` Mark Mitchell
2004-01-13 1:16 ` Ziemowit Laski
2004-01-13 1:26 ` Mark Mitchell
2004-01-13 1:33 ` Gabriel Dos Reis
2004-01-13 1:19 ` Gabriel Dos Reis
2004-01-13 0:47 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2004-01-13 0:16 ` Mark Mitchell
2004-01-13 0:54 ` Gabriel Dos Reis
2004-01-13 21:31 ` Geoff Keating
2004-01-13 22:41 ` David Edelsohn
2004-01-13 23:13 ` Daniel Berlin
2004-01-13 23:24 ` Paul Koning
2004-01-14 0:01 ` Geoff Keating
2004-01-14 0:26 ` Gabriel Dos Reis
2004-01-14 8:35 ` Laurent GUERBY
2004-01-14 14:58 ` Paul Koning
2004-01-13 23:29 ` Mike Stump
2004-01-14 0:47 ` Andrew Pinski
2004-01-14 1:05 ` Andrew Pinski
2004-01-14 1:36 ` Joe Buck
2004-01-14 19:47 ` Mike Stump
2004-01-13 23:51 ` Eric Christopher
2004-01-13 23:53 ` Daniel Berlin
2004-01-14 6:13 ` Mark Mitchell
2004-01-14 8:39 ` Laurent GUERBY
2004-01-14 8:48 ` Steven Bosscher
2004-01-14 20:59 ` Laurent GUERBY
2004-01-14 21:02 ` Andrew Haley
2004-01-19 1:31 ` Marc Espie
2004-01-19 1:51 ` Gabriel Dos Reis
2004-01-19 10:40 ` Nick Burrett
2004-01-19 13:55 ` Robert Dewar
2004-01-19 15:49 ` Gabriel Dos Reis
2004-01-19 16:09 ` Scott Robert Ladd
2004-01-19 16:24 ` Marc Espie
2004-01-19 17:07 ` Scott Robert Ladd
2004-01-19 17:54 ` Robert Dewar
2004-01-19 18:03 ` Gabriel Dos Reis
2004-01-19 17:41 ` Robert Dewar
2004-01-19 18:08 ` Scott Robert Ladd
2004-01-19 18:09 ` Scott Robert Ladd
2004-01-19 18:34 ` Marc Espie
2004-01-19 19:06 ` Robert Dewar
2004-01-19 20:22 ` Eric Botcazou
2004-01-19 20:38 ` Robert Dewar
2004-01-19 21:09 ` Eric Botcazou
2004-01-19 21:18 ` Eric Christopher
2004-01-19 21:46 ` Eric Botcazou
2004-01-19 22:09 ` Laurent GUERBY
2004-01-19 22:29 ` Marc Espie
2004-01-19 23:04 ` Laurent GUERBY
2004-01-20 3:45 ` Robert Dewar
2004-01-20 7:46 ` Marc Espie
2004-01-20 23:22 ` Gerald Pfeifer
2004-01-20 23:28 ` Zack Winkles
2004-01-19 23:53 ` Mark Hahn
2004-01-20 0:17 ` Gabriel Dos Reis
2004-01-20 14:27 ` Scott Robert Ladd
2004-01-22 14:50 ` Geoffrey Furnish
2004-01-20 8:25 ` Karel Gardas
2004-01-20 12:07 ` Laurent GUERBY
2004-01-20 14:41 ` Karel Gardas
2004-01-20 14:52 ` Daniel Berlin
2004-01-20 14:55 ` Karel Gardas
2004-01-20 15:16 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2004-01-20 15:21 ` Karel Gardas
2004-01-20 15:08 ` Paul Koning
2004-01-19 21:20 ` Robert Dewar
2004-01-20 2:05 ` Mike Stump
2004-01-20 14:25 ` Scott Robert Ladd
2004-01-19 21:34 ` Geoff Keating
2004-01-19 22:03 ` Eric Botcazou
2004-01-19 22:22 ` Geoff Keating
2004-01-19 22:38 ` Eric Botcazou
2004-01-20 3:53 ` Robert Dewar
2004-01-20 4:52 ` Eric Botcazou
2004-01-20 2:44 ` Alexandre Oliva
2004-01-20 3:04 ` Mike Stump
2004-01-20 19:03 ` Alexandre Oliva
2004-01-20 20:41 ` Mike Stump
2004-01-20 22:06 ` Alexandre Oliva
2004-01-20 22:59 ` Mike Stump
2004-01-20 18:52 ` Geoffrey Keating
2004-01-20 22:12 ` Alexandre Oliva
2004-01-20 22:30 ` Geoffrey Keating
2004-01-21 0:02 ` Alexandre Oliva
2004-01-21 12:12 ` Richard Earnshaw
2004-01-22 6:37 ` Segher Boessenkool
2004-01-22 10:38 ` Richard Earnshaw
2004-01-22 6:27 ` Segher Boessenkool
2004-01-19 17:27 ` Robert Dewar
2004-01-19 16:26 ` Per Bothner
2004-01-20 2:14 ` Mike Stump
2004-01-20 3:49 ` Zack Weinberg
2004-01-20 10:08 ` Jan Hubicka
2004-01-20 15:13 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2004-01-20 18:04 ` Zack Weinberg
2004-01-20 18:48 ` Geoffrey Keating
2004-01-20 19:01 ` Zack Weinberg
2004-01-20 22:04 ` Geoff Keating
2004-01-21 2:23 ` Zack Weinberg
2004-01-22 6:27 ` Segher Boessenkool
2004-01-19 20:51 ` Dale Johannesen
2004-01-19 23:01 ` Gabriel Dos Reis
2004-01-19 3:42 ` Marc Espie
2004-01-19 3:47 ` Robert McNulty Junior
2004-01-19 3:49 ` David Edelsohn
2004-01-19 13:28 ` Marc Espie
2004-01-19 13:35 ` Jan Hubicka
2004-01-19 19:10 ` Marc Espie
2004-01-19 19:15 ` Marc Espie
2004-01-19 20:49 ` Diego Novillo
2004-01-19 19:39 ` Jan Hubicka
2004-01-19 13:35 ` Diego Novillo
2004-01-19 13:39 ` Jan Hubicka
2004-01-19 17:58 ` Jan Hubicka
2004-01-19 3:59 ` Zack Weinberg
2004-01-19 8:19 ` Steven Bosscher
2004-01-19 11:29 ` Jan Hubicka
2004-01-19 13:18 ` Jan Hubicka
2004-01-19 14:13 ` Robert Dewar
2004-01-19 14:18 ` Jan Hubicka
2004-01-19 14:48 ` Vladimir Makarov
2004-01-19 17:04 ` Jan Hubicka
2004-01-20 2:46 ` Alexandre Oliva
2004-01-19 4:37 ` Giovanni Bajo
2004-01-19 4:46 ` Gabriel Dos Reis
2004-01-19 7:04 ` Eric Botcazou
2004-01-19 7:10 ` Andreas Jaeger
2004-01-19 8:12 ` Steven Bosscher
2004-01-19 8:38 ` Gabriel Dos Reis
2004-01-19 8:45 ` Steven Bosscher
2004-01-19 9:35 ` Gabriel Dos Reis
2004-01-12 22:40 ` Mike Stump
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