FreeBSD 6 is coming too fast

Steve Kargl sgk at troutmask.apl.washington.edu
Mon Apr 25 06:53:45 PDT 2005


On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 07:42:54AM -0600, Scott Long wrote:
> Kirill Ponomarew wrote:
> >
> >According to gcc-4.0 release notes, compilation speed for C++ was
> >dramatically increased, up to 25% IIRC.  I think 4.0 is good
> >candidate for merging into HEAD.
> >
> 
> Is this work that you plan on doing for us?  What about the deprecated
> language constructs in 4.0?  What about the lack of exposure that it's
> had outside of the FSF and Apple development circles?
> 

I build gcc-4.x almost daily on i386 and amd64 FreeBSD systems.
I would recommend a conservative approach of not updating at 
this time. 

-- 
Steve


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