> however gnu has devolved. they seem to value compiling on anything, > and efficiency, but they don't seem to value simplicity.
It's a skewed form of concern about efficiency though. In the case of gcc, they worry about run-time of the generated program, but not about the time it takes to compile it. gcc seems to get slower with each release. I don't know if gcc 4 is the slowest C compiler on the planet (I suspect that Henry Spencer's never-finished aacc, written in awk, might take that title), but it's the slowest one I've used.
