Re: CVS commit: src/external/gpl3

[Jason Thorpe <thorpej%me.com@localhost>]

> On Mar 25, 2020, at 5:26 PM, Kamil Rytarowski <n54%gmx.com@localhost> wrote:
> 
> Upstream (GCC) is strongly against this change (even under __NetBSD__
> ifdef) as /var/tmp is typically larger than /tmp:
> 
>> I'd strongly recommend against this as-is.
>> 
>> The whole reason we prefer /var/tmp is because it's often dramatically
> larger
>> than a ram-backed /tmp.
> 
> -- by Jeff Law.

That's bonkers.  It needlessly hurts performance and, on modern systems, adds needless SSD writes.

-- thorpej