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Interview with Mark Mitchel, GCC's Release Engineer

Posted by michael on from the make-interview dept.

ICC-Rocks writes "In light of the imminent release of the first 'stable' version of GCC version 3, OSNews features an interview with Mark Mitchel, GCC's Release Engineer. They are talking about GCC 3.x, the future and the competition."

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  1. GCC white tower. by Zapman · · Score: 3, Interesting

    8. What did you think about the Intel Compiler v6 that came out recently? Did you have time to have a look at it?

    Mark Mitchel: I do not have enough information about that compiler to comment on it.

    I know that x86 is just 1 arch for gcc, however it is an important one, being the most common. I would think that those heavily involved with gcc (and especially the x86 backend) would be much more interested in how well the other compilers performed since they are 'the competition' as it were.

    It's kind of depressing that he 'doesn't have enough information to comment'.

    if intel's compiler had been released last month or thereabouts, I could understand, but IIRC, it was released about 6 months ago.

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    Zapman
  2. Re:Free content isn't supposed to mean content-fre by clem.dickey · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The message is between the lines. If there were ever an interview with a developer working in "go away and don't bug me" mode, this is it.

  3. MM is a C++ front-end guy. by Per+Abrahamsen · · Score: 3, Informative

    MM is primarily a C++ front-end guy (when not being a release manager), and the interesting aspects of ICC is mostly in the i32 backend, so ICC is unlikely to be that interesting once MM has time.

    I believe ICC use a version of the generic Edison C++ front-end (most good C++ compilers do), which MM is most likely already familiar with.