FreeBSD 6 is coming too fast

[Kirill Ponomarew]

On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 06:19:00PM +0300, Danny Braniss wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 08:44:34AM -0600, Scott Long wrote:
> > > >No, I'm not going to do it because of lack of knowledge, there are
> > > >people who have more experience with it than me.
> > > >
> > > Well, as I said in another email, switching to GCC 4 just because of
> > > dubious "25% faster" (faster at what?  compiling?  resulting generated
> > > code?  crashing?) claims in the changelog is not a terribly good
> > > reason =-)
> > 
> > 25% faster to compile the code, not running it.
> 
> so that closes the argument! i can do a makeworld in about 25 minutes, cutting
> it down by 6 minutes will not make any real difference, but it will take
> much longer to recode all the 'usupported features'. if you have an
> application that takes hours to compile, then please, go ahead and use GCC 4.

Do not forget about pointyhat which compiles a tons of ports.  Switching
it to gcc-4.0 would decrease builds time, and it's not a bad idea IMHO.

But since I'm not going to handle it, I better shut up and let
another people take decision.

-Kirill