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diff --git a/src/cold/shared.lisp b/src/cold/shared.lisp
index 7fcb851..0abec7b 100644
--- a/src/cold/shared.lisp
+++ b/src/cold/shared.lisp
@@ -15,27 +15,6 @@
 ;;;; provided with absolutely no warranty. See the COPYING and CREDITS
 ;;;; files for more information.
 
-;;; GC tuning has little effect on the x86 due to the generational
-;;; collector.  For the older stop & copy collector, it assuredly
-;;; does.  GC time is proportional to the amount of non-garbage
-;;; needing collection and copying; when the application involved is
-;;; the SBCL compiler, it doesn't take any longer to collect 20 Mb than
-;;; to collect 2 Mb. -dan, 20000819
-;;;
-;;; Actually, tweaking *BYTES-CONSED-BETWEEN-GCS* to 20Mb instead of
-;;; the default 2 seemed to make SBCL rebuild O(25%) faster on my 256
-;;; Mb K6/3, so I think it does have some effect on X86/GENCGC. I
-;;; haven't looked into why this would be, though. Also, I'm afraid
-;;; that using 20Mb here might be unfriendly to people using more-reasonable
-;;; machines (like old laptops with 48Mb of memory..) so I've
-;;; suppressed this tweak except for Alpha. -- WHN 2001-05-11
-#+(and sbcl alpha) ; SBCL/Alpha uses stop-and-copy, and Alphas have lotso RAM.
-(progn
-  (sb-ext:gc-off)
-  (setf (sb-ext:bytes-consed-between-gcs) (* 20 (expt 10 6)))
-  (sb-ext:gc-on)
-  (sb-ext:gc))
-
 ;;; SB-COLD holds stuff used to build the initial SBCL core file
 ;;; (including not only the final construction of the core file, but
 ;;; also the preliminary steps like e.g. building the cross-compiler
@@ -107,20 +86,16 @@
 ;;; COMPILE-STEM function above. -- WHN 19990321
 (defun rename-file-a-la-unix (x y)
 
-  ;; CLISP signals an error when the target file exists, which
-  ;; seems unjustified by the ANSI definition of RENAME-FILE.
-  ;; Work around it.
-  #+clisp (ignore-errors (delete-file y))
-
-  (rename-file x
-	       ;; (Note that the TRUENAME expression here is lifted
-	       ;; from an example in the ANSI spec for TRUENAME.)
-	       (with-open-file (stream y :direction :output)
-		 (close stream)
-		 ;; From the ANSI spec: "In this case, the file is
-		 ;; closed when the truename is tried, so the truename
-		 ;; information is reliable."
-		 (truename stream))))
+  (let ((path 	 ;; (Note that the TRUENAME expression here is lifted from an
+		 ;; example in the ANSI spec for TRUENAME.)
+	 (with-open-file (stream y :direction :output)
+	   (close stream)
+	   ;; From the ANSI spec: "In this case, the file is closed
+	   ;; when the truename is tried, so the truename
+	   ;; information is reliable."
+	   (truename stream))))
+    (delete-file path)
+    (rename-file x path)))
 (compile 'rename-file-a-la-unix)
 
 ;;; a wrapper for compilation/assembly, used mostly to centralize