GCC 4.0.0 Released

busfahrer writes "Version 4.0.0 of the GNU Compiler Collection has been released. You can read the changelog or you can download the source tarball. The new version finally features SSA for trees, allowing for a completely new optimization framework." The changelog is pretty lengthy, and there's updates for every language supported from Ada to Java in addition to the usual flavors of C.

Comments

Re:Moving fast

[andreyw]

Sure it wasn't Slackware 3.6?

Re:Moving fast

[bani]

except when it comes to topics like mysql or php. then its a trollfest.

Re:"Paltry" is probably a poor choice of words

[anothy]

You have no concept of numbers.

funny, i was thinking the same thing about your post. either that or you have no concept of Unix. let's examine this statement:

Unix and its children and cousins on the back and front end probably double the total number of apple boxes out there.

well that's fascinating. really. OS X, of course, is a unix system, so your statement essentially boils down to (A + B + n) >= 2A. that's certainly not hard to believe, but it's also not particularly interesting or informative. and none of these numbers say anything about GCC use - of any version.

of course, my more general question is where any of your numbers come from. Unix handles "close to 50% of the backend of the internet"? at least among things which run any sort of "real" OS (that is, not Cisco's IOS, for example), i'm pretty sure the numbers are much higher than that. but what does "the backend of the internet" mean, anyway? database servers? DNS server? surely you're not talking about the real infrastructure components, or Unix drops probably by an order of magnitude.