Tim Bradshaw  <tfb@cley.com> wrote:
+---------------
| And another thing, since I'm here.  All those big enterprise-class SMP
| machines that they want you to think are for running big databases?
| They're lying.  I just built gcc 3.0.1 from source today, and I
| *seriously* need some more CPUs in my machine so I can use parallel
| make and get more than one build done per day.  The build creates
| nearly 400Mb of files, on top of the nearly 90Mb of sources.
| Completely insane.
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-Rob

p.s. Obligatory vaguely on-topic question: Anybody make
a CL that can make good use of a *large* number of CPUs...?

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