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FreeBSD 10 To Use Clang Compiler, Deprecate GCC
An anonymous reader writes "Shared in last quarter's FreeBSD status report are developer plans to have LLVM/Clang become the default compiler and to deprecate GCC. Clang can now build most packages and suit well for their BSD needs. They also plan to have a full BSD-licensed C++11 stack in FreeBSD 10."
Says the article, too: "Some vendors have also been playing around with the idea of using Clang to build the Linux kernel (it's possible to do with certain kernel configurations, patches, and other headaches)."
Don't put words into my mouth.
Yes, but the difference is that they wish they weren't.
In electromagnetic field theory, I suspect the boundary conditions between one field and another are discontinuity free. And I think it's an ecological principle that boundary conditions between ecological players tend to settle into a continuous rather than a discontinuous equilibrium boundary. I was thinking about this the other day concerning a piece I read a while back by Sapolsky on diabetic primates near an African garbage dump. They liked the easy calories, but it was hell on their health. Could they refuse? While some other troop fattens there and kicks their asses before the diabetic liability catches up? When your mortal enemy sells his soul to the devil for daemon spawn in your dominion, it's hard to sit around on the sidelines and play not-involved.
So then I was thinking about The Emerald Forest where the Fierce tribe obtain guns from western interlopers leaving the nearby pacifistic tribe not a hell of a great choice, as the gun-toting Fiercers became increasingly proficient at selling women and girls captured from the pacifist tribe into sexual slavery to help the hard driving westerners relax after a long day Caterpilling the Amazon into oblivion. Yeah, great choices were pretty thin on the ground.
I see the same dynamics on the highway. If you have more than 30% of the drivers thinking they are entitled to drive at the 70'th percentile (I'm not the guy really speeding), well, I'm sure you can work out the differential equations of competitive entitlement as well as I can.
If everyone drove according to my personal decision procedure, speeds would stabilize well above the posted speed limit under ideal conditions: good road surface, good visibility, low congestion, familiar route, the majority of drivers passing for attentive and competent, vehicle in good running condition, no in-vehicle distractions, clear and positive frame of mind.
As the auspicious factors decline, I adjust my driving profile more than most of the other drivers. Under poor conditions, I'm driving at or below the posted speed limit, while others persist in driving within the customary envelop (on one trip home in fresh snow where 30m expanded to well more than an hour, I counting sixteen "What, me worry?" optimists standing beside their off-road vehicles with cell-phones flipped open to summon a tow truck).
So even if you can't tell me apart from reckless speeders in the average mix, if you separate out different contingents you would see clear differences. My decision procedure is not inflationary.
When Stallman enters the conversation, others are forced to either politicize or find themselves pressed against the walls.
Victim Fights Back In NSW Sydney School
Bully Richard Gale Interview
Sapolsky has documented among other primates that shit flows down hill. When a low status baboon finally gains enough status to pass it along, he just can't wait for a more pathetic specimen to wander into the troop.
From Robert Sapolsky discusses physiological effects of stress
What Richard Gale fails to comprehend in his thin self-justification is that Eve once said to Adam "You said I started it long before I ever said you started it." In my theology, a pint of Guinness is God's apology to man, so I place the garden of Eden somewhere in Ireland.
I think both boys were suspended for being out of line. The principal of that school agrees with you that BSD is just as political as the GPL.