From: gah@ugcs.caltech.edu   
      
   Nils M Holm wrote:   
      
   (snip)   
      
   > I agree that fast compilers seem to become a lost art, and I think   
   > that this is unfortunate. Fast turn-around cycles are a major factor   
   > in productivity, and you can still do the final build with an   
   > optimizing compiler (or with optimization enabled).   
      
   It seems that compilers not requiring huge amounts of memory is also a   
   lost art.   
      
   There are people trying to get gcc running on S/370, with its 24 bit   
   address space and maybe 8M available to a user process.  It seems that   
   gcc can't compile itself in 8M.   
      
   The solution, then, is a new architecture based on S/370 but with more   
   address bits and a modified MVS to run on it.   
      
   -- glen   
   [My, that's bloated.  Sixth edition Unix could compile itself in   
   about 32K. -John]   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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