From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 18107 invoked by alias); 19 Jan 2004 21:34:48 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-owner@gcc.gnu.org Received: (qmail 18055 invoked from network); 19 Jan 2004 21:34:47 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail-out4.apple.com) (17.254.13.23) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 19 Jan 2004 21:34:47 -0000 Received: from mailgate1.apple.com (a17-128-100-225.apple.com [17.128.100.225]) by mail-out4.apple.com (8.12.10/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i0JLYlcb029222 for ; Mon, 19 Jan 2004 13:34:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from relay2.apple.com (relay2.apple.com) by mailgate1.apple.com (Content Technologies SMTPRS 4.3.6) with ESMTP id ; Mon, 19 Jan 2004 13:34:46 -0800 Received: from [17.201.20.159] (keatge.apple.com [17.201.20.159]) by relay2.apple.com (8.12.10/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i0JLYkPx005876; Mon, 19 Jan 2004 21:34:46 GMT In-Reply-To: <200401192120.53057.ebotcazou@libertysurf.fr> References: <90200277-4301-11D8-BDBD-000A95B1F520@apple.com> <400C1D07.9020300@coyotegulch.com> <400C2789.4070908@gnat.com> <200401192120.53057.ebotcazou@libertysurf.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v609) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: <51C2CB76-4AC7-11D8-90DA-0030657EA24A@apple.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Scott Robert Ladd , Robert Dewar , gcc@gcc.gnu.org, Nick Burrett , Gabriel Dos Reis , Marc Espie From: Geoff Keating Subject: Re: gcc 3.5 integration branch proposal Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 21:34:00 -0000 To: Eric Botcazou X-SW-Source: 2004-01/txt/msg01387.txt.bz2 On Jan 19, 2004, at 12:21 PM, Eric Botcazou wrote: >> Here is a suggestion: >> >> For $399 you can buy from Dell a brand new Dimension 2400 with a >> 2.4GHz >> Celeron, 400MHz front bus, 256 meg of memory, 40GB disk, 17" monitor, >> and 48x CD-RW/DVD-ROM combo drive. > > I have always been amazed by the reasonings starting with "you can > buy". Why > in the first place should you buy a brand new computer to do anything? > Why > can't the typical 2-3 years old model be sufficient? > >> That's a pretty reasonable machine at a very reasonable price. > > For a professional developer based in the US, certainly. I'm not sure > GCC > should primarily target such a population though. I would look at it this way: Why should a professional developer based in the US try to make GCC work on anything less than this machine? It's clearly not cost-effective to spend any significant time doing so. -- Geoff Keating