[Gllug] Issues with Hotplug && Auto-mounting

[Peter Childs]

On 28/11/05, Nix <nix at esperi.org.uk> wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Nov 2005, Martin A. Brooks spake:
> > Futhermore stuff like Firefox can take literally _hours_ to compile,
> > the microsecond of processor time you gain by compiling for, say, i686
> > when your distro ships an i386 binary, is instantly and unrecoverably
> > wiped out by the time spent watching GCC do its thing.
>

Silly point and I might be getting this completely wrong but most of
firefox is written in a mixture of Javascript, XML, very little in
files that actually need compiling. Basically the compiled bits are a
collection of libraries, oh and a boot strap.

Of course I might be completely wrong.

Peter
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