On Fri, 29 Apr 2005, Richard Henderson wrote:
For ld, at least, --no-keep-memory. Normally it makes things run
slower, but that may not actually be the case for libjava.
Another suggestion, even though my last one sank without trace :-)
There is a lot to read through to find out things like this, so I
think it would be helpful if there were options for configure to
support older machines. I'm imagining things like
--slow-cpu-heuristics, --small-memory-heuristics,
--slow-disk-heuristics. They could then bring options on linkers
and so forth into play, which could tune the build performance.
They'd be imperfect, but they could help. I see this as being in
the spirit of `gmake bootstrap-lean`
I've just spent the best part of a week trying to get a recent-ish
compiler on an old Solaris-2.5.1 system. It takes time to explore
the options.
Thank you,
Hugh
