Build Problems Resolved

[Bill Frantz]

At 01:51 PM 9/5/1999 -0700, Mark S. Miller wrote:
>Yes, I intended the depressing aspects of the analogy.  However, notice how 
>little most of us care anymore about the instruction set.  People who write 
>code generators or operating systems are still put through hell, but their 
>efforts save the rest of us from that hell.  We are already approaching the 
>same fortunate situation regarding jvms.  Pick your battles.  I no more 
>want to fight the jvm tidal wave than I want to fight the x86 one.

Well, we pay a bit more than that.  We pay for the small number of
registers.  We pay for the cycle cost of implementing a poor instruction
set.  All of this we pay for in poor performance.  I note that Apple is now
claiming, "Rather than being just 35% faster, the new Power Mac G4 is up to
a stunning 100% to 200% faster than the fastest Pentium III-based PCs."
(http://www.apple.com/powermac/).