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Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2006 16:39:08 -0800
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> however gnu has devolved.  they seem to value compiling on anything,
> and efficiency, but they don't seem to value simplicity.

It's a skewed form of concern about efficiency though.  In the case of
gcc, they worry about run-time of the generated program, but not about
the time it takes to compile it.  gcc seems to get slower with each
release.  I don't know if gcc 4 is the slowest C compiler on the
planet (I suspect that Henry Spencer's never-finished aacc, written in
awk, might take that title), but it's the slowest one I've used.