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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. GNAA APPROVES OF GNU by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    (GAY NIGGER UNDERWEAR)

  2. What we need is configure & make optimization by Look+KG486 · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Forgive my ignorance on this, but it always bothers me when I run configure, and I see the script check for things that *never* change like the size of an int in bytes. Why can't this be figured out once, then stuffed in a config file somewhere?

    I don't know if this is possible or if some method exists. I run Gentoo and building everything from source. With distcc, running configure often takes longer than then the time it takes to compile.

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  3. ", which" vs. " that" by tepples · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    do you really not recognize a phrase intended for the portion of the audience that doesn't know what a compiler is?

    The construction "a compiler, which does foo" defines compiler, while "a compiler that does foo" implies that foo is specific to this compiler. There's a difference. If that's grammar national socialism, then Sieg Heil!