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Do you really drink a honey based brew?
There is almost certainly a binary version of gcc in Gentoo. I ran Gentoo for 20 odd years and also generally insisted on compiling everything. I recall gcc going from v3 to 4. My laptop ran for over a week on a glass table with a prop to keep the fan vent unobstructed.
I probably should have learned back then that I didn't really understand exactly how the toolchain worked and how to get from ebuilds to binary code really works. I'm a sysadmin and not a programmer.
With hindsight, I suggest that you pick your fights with care. Use the bin versions of entire packages where available and enjoy the flexibility of USE when it will make a difference.
gcc is not the biggest lump you will compile but it does take a while. It was rather slower 20 years ago.
Yep, I drink mead, i.e. honey wine. It's really good, doesn't give me as much of a headache as beer these days. Sometimes it's too sweet, I haven't found a good dry one around here though.
I played around with Gentoo a few years ago, got it working but then got annoyed with some binaries taking too long. Wanted to build a machine I couldn't hack though, and now there's a repo with precompiled bins if you ask portage nicely, so I figured I'd give it a shot again. Maybe it was the mead but I forgot to do that for gcc though. oops