April 2002 Dev Tools Include gcc Update

snyperm writes "stepwise.com indicates that the April 2002 Developer Tools have been seeded to developers and is scheduled for release sometime in the coming weeks. The improvement of gcc 3.1 alone is noteworthy as arstechnica indicates there should be somewhat substantial increases in speed ahead for Mac OS X. One step closer to 10.2!" Also included, according to the story, is a ProjectBuilder 2.0 beta.

Comments

Altivec?

[Lally Singh]

Odd, from the release notes:

GCC 3 has greatly improved code optimization, especially for Altivec code.

-faltivec Optimizes code for the Altivec.

Not that this release is going to be some automatically vectorizing compiler... Previous experience tells us how really hard that is. But, we can expect some basic altivec usage.