gcc 4.3: when will it become standard compiler?

Christoph Mallon christoph.mallon at gmx.de
Fri Jan 9 01:22:19 PST 2009


O. Hartmann schrieb:
> When will gcc 4.3 incorporated in FreeBSD 8 and become the standard
> compiler suite? We figured out that gcc 4.3 does have a speed gain in
> some numerical code of 3 - 8 % and I guess we can use this in the basic
> OS as well ...

Number crunching has a totally different execution profile than basic 
operating system services. Gains in one area cannot simply be 
transferred to the other.


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