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April 2002 Dev Tools Include gcc Update

Posted by pudge on from the look-ma-i-can-build-me-some-softwarez dept.

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.

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  1. hmm by seann · · Score: 4, Informative

    13: 60% [FP ] 4.58s Spherical Harmonics Legendre Polynomial
    13: 64% [FP ] 4.31s Spherical Harmonics Legendre Polynomial

    ~19%
    14: 38% [INT] 15.54s Dhrystone 2.1 (500k Iterations)
    14: 45% [INT] 13.18s Dhrystone 2.1 (500k Iterations)

    ~11%
    15: 32% [FP ] 9.15s Whetstone 1.2 (1000k Operations)
    15: 36% [FP ] 8.23s Whetstone 1.2 (1000k Operations)

    Those are some SEXY benchmarks. (bold = new gcc)

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  2. color me puzzled by ubiquitin · · Score: 4, Interesting

    GCC3.1 still doesn't have altivech optimization, which is what is really needed at this point for a speed boost for OSX apps. Good to see the update coming, though.

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  3. Actually, it does. by DeadMeat+(TM) · · Score: 4, Interesting
    From http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-3.1/changes.html:
    Altivec support has been added for the PowerPC variants that support it. See -maltivec.