Oh wait, I know you, you're an Apple fanboi/astroturfer. Well I use O3 all the time with GCC and haven't run into an issue in years. Of course, there are issues, just damn few.
In short, anybody who cares about performance runs GCC at O3 these days because it kicks serious butt. And I do know what I'm talking about, I've benchmarked it extensively, and yes, I read the machine code.
I see you were modded down as flamebait. However, benchmarks would seem to support your claim.
C'mon Apple people, please back off the reality distortion. LLVM has a lot of interesting points to recommend it, but one those is very definitely not beating GCC in code optimization. Particularly GCC 4.7 which has turned in yet another impressive performance increment across the board.
With Linux desktops, it's almost better to reimage them then do a mass roll out of dist-upgrade and pray it works.
Your opinion has been colored by the crap Ubuntu puts out. Try it on Debian, it works. My home server started as Debian Potato with kernel 2.2 and has been upgraded continuously all the way to Wheezy. For most of its life it was my desktop as well as my server. And yes, I run my server on Debian unstable. Just don't let anybody tell you you that re-imaging is a fact of life. Just because Canonical has trouble with it (and Google has major major trouble with it because of certain idiocy I won't get into) doesn't mean it can't be done. And even Canonical has managed to pull off a fairly reliable cross-release upgrade the last couple of releases.
Re-imaging is something that happens to Windows users. Linux users generally don't need to put up with it.
Americans are slowly waking up to the fact that their mobile networks, internet access, and communications facilities are all crap compared to the rest of the world.
You would think so, wouldn't you? But think about this: not even 30% of Americans have passports. Very few Americans even know that their sim cards won't work outside the country. If they find out they typically don't care.
And you forgot, America is paradise. The home of everything that is good and beautiful about technology and consumer gadgets. America is the land of the free. You just have it all wrong, bad you.
Well, maybe Adobe runs independent codebases for their projects, so some poor schmuck coder has to go to each projectbase, check out the offending file(s), and make the changes.
If they need to make the changes in more than one place then their code structure is broken anyway and they should fix it in their own interest. Never mind that they benefit from giving away their free software and should recognize the cost of doing so as a legitimate business expense.
I doubt that you yourself have changed the course of history for the better.
I doubt he has too, but only time will tell.
Time has already told, or maybe you did not use your phone today, quite probably running software compiled with the compiler he wrote or licensed under the licence he created, which changed the course of history. If you do not recognize such evident facts then you are a dunce, or simply disingenuous. Either way, please do not call me mate, you do not mean it.
They are actively punishing people for purchasing.
In my case, I would estimate that they have cut their business from me by more than 50% with their warnings and other abuses. Every time I watch a DVD I am reminded of how much this industry detests me, a paying customer.
To do what? Download the pirated copies so they don't have to watch the unskippable content?
Exactly my thought. And it is disingenuous to call these "government warnings" when they are really industry warnings. My warning to the industry is: "you are losing me".
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Random crashes on -O3.
That is the opposite of specific. Go away troll.
I am not any kind of "Apple Fanboi".
Care to explain why you always show up in articles involving Apple, turboposting with an obvious bias?
Is it legal for Microsoft to fund illegal activity, such as denial of service hacking attacks?
Linux has sooo many malware entry points and hooks.
Name a few please.
(Of course we both know you are talking out your butt, so please don't get too stressed about it.)
back in the day when I used GCC I pretty much never turned on full GCC optimizations because I would run into odd issues at times if I tried
Care to be specific about those odd issues? Of course I'm not holding my breath, because I think you just made that up.
Oh wait, I know you, you're an Apple fanboi/astroturfer. Well I use O3 all the time with GCC and haven't run into an issue in years. Of course, there are issues, just damn few.
In short, anybody who cares about performance runs GCC at O3 these days because it kicks serious butt. And I do know what I'm talking about, I've benchmarked it extensively, and yes, I read the machine code.
it's not far behind
Did you actually look at those benchmarks?
I see you were modded down as flamebait. However, benchmarks would seem to support your claim.
C'mon Apple people, please back off the reality distortion. LLVM has a lot of interesting points to recommend it, but one those is very definitely not beating GCC in code optimization. Particularly GCC 4.7 which has turned in yet another impressive performance increment across the board.
With Linux desktops, it's almost better to reimage them then do a mass roll out of dist-upgrade and pray it works.
Your opinion has been colored by the crap Ubuntu puts out. Try it on Debian, it works. My home server started as Debian Potato with kernel 2.2 and has been upgraded continuously all the way to Wheezy. For most of its life it was my desktop as well as my server. And yes, I run my server on Debian unstable. Just don't let anybody tell you you that re-imaging is a fact of life. Just because Canonical has trouble with it (and Google has major major trouble with it because of certain idiocy I won't get into) doesn't mean it can't be done. And even Canonical has managed to pull off a fairly reliable cross-release upgrade the last couple of releases.
Re-imaging is something that happens to Windows users. Linux users generally don't need to put up with it.
Please mod the spam above to oblivion.
Americans are slowly waking up to the fact that their mobile networks, internet access, and communications facilities are all crap compared to the rest of the world.
You would think so, wouldn't you? But think about this: not even 30% of Americans have passports. Very few Americans even know that their sim cards won't work outside the country. If they find out they typically don't care.
And you forgot, America is paradise. The home of everything that is good and beautiful about technology and consumer gadgets. America is the land of the free. You just have it all wrong, bad you.
Well, maybe Adobe runs independent codebases for their projects, so some poor schmuck coder has to go to each projectbase, check out the offending file(s), and make the changes.
If they need to make the changes in more than one place then their code structure is broken anyway and they should fix it in their own interest. Never mind that they benefit from giving away their free software and should recognize the cost of doing so as a legitimate business expense.
wasn't the "FBI Warning" itself determined to be illegal?
Do you have a link for that?
I doubt that you yourself have changed the course of history for the better.
I doubt he has too, but only time will tell.
Time has already told, or maybe you did not use your phone today, quite probably running software compiled with the compiler he wrote or licensed under the licence he created, which changed the course of history. If you do not recognize such evident facts then you are a dunce, or simply disingenuous. Either way, please do not call me mate, you do not mean it.
I advocate for civility and respect. What do you advocate for, your right to twist my words?
They are actively punishing people for purchasing.
In my case, I would estimate that they have cut their business from me by more than 50% with their warnings and other abuses. Every time I watch a DVD I am reminded of how much this industry detests me, a paying customer.
To do what? Download the pirated copies so they don't have to watch the unskippable content?
Exactly my thought. And it is disingenuous to call these "government warnings" when they are really industry warnings. My warning to the industry is: "you are losing me".
Why? Did you do something noteworthy?
I take it you did. Oh wait, maybe not. If you want to know who Bruce Perens is, look him up in Wikipedia.
Why censor truth? A whole lot of slashdotters have pointed out his reasoning in those cases, no harm done. Yet somehow it still offends you?
It offends me deeply. I doubt that you yourself have changed the course of history for the better. Think about it.
Why? It's all true.
And what I said above is all true. Did you have a point?
According to Reuters, Apple surpassed Android in marketshare
I guess that just goes to show you can't believe everything Reuters writes.
Closer to the truth
My first thought was "ohmigod, I have yet to shake his hand".
Notice that the post you are replying to (several paragraphs long and containing a number of links) was posted the very same minute as the story.
Right, and then inexplicably modded up.
The post above is pure bile, disrespectful and unspeakably rude. It makes Slashdot look bad. Please mod it to oblivion.
It's Wolfenstein 3D alright, but with only arrow key controls it sucks way too much.