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GCC 3.4.0 Released

Posted by timothy on from the deep-infrastructure dept.

AaronW writes "While checking the GCC website I saw that GCC version 3.4 was officially released on April 18th. Version 3.4 includes numerous changes and enhancements, including better optimization, and the ability to build a profiled version of gcc which is 7.5-11% faster on i386 hardware. Be kind and please use one of the mirror sites."

3 of 68 comments (clear)

  1. Re:but who by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Insightful

    In case you aren't joking:

    i386 architecture != 386 cpu

  2. That's who by fm6 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Well, these guys, these guys, and these guys seem to have no trouble selling 386-based hardware. Not everybody needs the full feature set (or the cost and power requirements) of a Pentium.

  3. Re:Why are you only using even-numbered releases? by chefren · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Gnome has been doing this as well and as far as I can tell they are fairly major. :)