On 2010-12-14 05:59, David Kirkby wrote:
> Cons:
> * It would make Sage 1.6 MB larger
> * It would slow builds on any system where the Sage gcc was used in
> preference to a system one.
Building gcc takes a huge amount of time. I guess it could easily
double the total build-from-scratch time fo
If anyone said including our own compiler with Sage is taking the
"batteries included" approach too far, I would NOT disagree with them,
But there do appear to be issues which may be difficult / impossible
to resolve with Sage upgrades using gcc that uses Sage's GMP, MPFR and
MPC (See Leif's comme
