>On an 8M 486/66 under 1.4.1, I found that I couldn't build a kernel
>with -O2. I let it run for about 48 hours before giving up; it was
>just paging itself to death.

Hmmm .... my 8M 386/33 took under a day to build a new kernel for 1.4.1
with the default compiler options (okay, that was in single-user mode :-) ).
Certainly way slower than 1.3, though.

--Ken