From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: torek@torek.net (Chris Torek)
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2017 13:34:34 -0700
Subject: [TUHS] Happy birthday, Dennis Ritchie!
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 15 Sep 2017 12:50:13 -0700."
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Message-ID: <201709152034.v8FKYY0f026262@elf.torek.net>

>Forget ports!  /usr/src is bad enough.  Running buildworld, it takes 
>longer to build the flippin' compilers (llvm) than it does to build the 
>entire rest of the OS.  This is not progress.

Common thread: LLVM is written in C++.

(Also, at some point during compilation, at least some versions
grow quite big, using 20 GB of RAM or whatever.  And C++ is hard
on the linkers as well...)

Chris