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GCC 4.0 Preview

Posted by timothy on from the dual-overhead-cams dept.

Reducer2001 writes "News.com is running a story previewing GCC 4.0. A quote from the article says, '(included will be) technology to compile programs written in Fortran 95, an updated version of a decades-old programming language still popular for scientific and technical tasks, Henderson said. And software written in the C++ programming language should run faster--"shockingly better" in a few cases.'"

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  1. watch out by fanblade · · Score: 5, Funny

    "...software written in the C++ programming language should run faster--..."

    Is this the programmer's way of saying it will run at some speed less than faster?

    1. Re:watch out by r00t · · Score: 5, Funny

      No, that's a postfix "--" operator. This software will run faster. Other software, trying to be faster, will be at a disadvantage because "faster" has been decremented. This is really just a sneaky way to make other languages look bad.

  2. Screenshots! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Screenshots, screenshots! I need screenshots people!!!

  3. Re:I just want C++ programs to COMPILE faster by Profane+MuthaFucka · · Score: 5, Funny

    It does take longer to compile C++. The solution to this is to keep Slashdot open in a browser. Back in the days before Slashdot, when compiling took even longer, programmers actually used to go ape-shit watching the compiler. We live in wonderful times.

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  4. Re:C++ compiler by SlashThat · · Score: 5, Funny

    And when they compile GCC 4.0 with GCC 4.0, it will be even fasterer!

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  5. quote... by Cryptnotic · · Score: 5, Funny

    "They that can give up high performance to obtain a little temporary security deserve neither performance nor security."

    --not Benjamin Franklin

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