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From: s_titz@ira.uka.de (Olaf Titz)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix,comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.linux,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: Choosing a Unix like OS for a pc
Date: 21 Jun 1993 12:57:49 GMT
Organization: Fachschaft math/inf, Uni Karlsruhe, FRG
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In article <201f9p$kkv@klaava.Helsinki.FI> torvalds@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Linus Torvalds) writes:
> To give minix some credit: Bruce Evans told me he was able to recompile
> the kernel in less than one minute if I remember correctly. Of course,
> he has a reasonably fast machine and minix sources are smaller, but the
I still remember the recompilation of Linux 0.11 from scratch in about
10 minutes (on a 386/25 with 4 MB, then.) The current kernel has
gotten *much* bigger, but this is for all the new features :-)
> main time-saver is that the minix (and coherent) C-compilers are much
> faster than gcc... Not that I would trade the compilers, but if you are
Yes, gcc has a reputation for being awfully slow. This is still
noticeable on the fast Ultrix RISC box I'm on now. However, it
produces really good code, especially on traditional CPUs like the
386, and - perhaps even more important - it does rigid code checking.
If you get a program through gcc -pedantic -ansi -Wall without errors,
you know how to write clean code. :-)
I still prefer gcc on any machine I'm currently working with. It is
worth the extra time.
Olaf
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