On 4/22/12 6:44 PM, DJ Lucas wrote: > I'm not entirely positive, it's been a few years, but there was no need > to compile unnecessary additions that eat up time. Granted, it is a very > small savings in the grand scheme. That was the goal of those switches > and several others at the time that GCC started requiring mpc, mpfr, and > gpc (and when it was decided to exclude Cloog and PPL).
Yeah, it would add _slightly_ to the compile time to link in those features, but I can't see it making a difference on modern hardware. Whether the resultant gcc actually operates slower is another question, although I doubt that too is significant, if so. JH -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page