(fwd) GCC 3.4.0 Released

[Kurt Wall]

In a 1.6K blaze of typing glory, Net Llama! wrote:
> For those of us who don't fully grasp the inner magic of a compiler, 
> what makes gtcc-3.4.0 something that I'd want to upgrade to from the 
> 3.3.x line?

Hmm. Smarter optimizations, improved code profiling, and better 
overall code quality. For C, Objective-C, and C++, probably the 
biggest news is precompiled headers, which will make some projects
(especially C++) compile *much* faster. g++ is also more standards-
compliant, which has been a significant and valid knock on GCC for
some years. If you like Objective-C, a lot of Apple's work on GCC
in the Objective-C part of GCC has been integrated. There is also
an Opteron-specific optimization, -march=k8 and -mcpu=k8.

Kurt
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