Re: PCG [AMD K7]

[David Whitten <whitten at netcom dot com>]

> 
> I have sent this message to the following orginizations in the hope that
> a floating point operations optimized compiler for the AMD-K7/SLOT A
> processor on the RedHat Linux platform will be developed sometime in the
> first or second quarter of 1999.
<snip>
> I am a programmer by trade,
<snip>
>  The only catch is I need a "C" compiler for the RedHat
> Linux platform that takes advantage of the floating point instruction
> extensions.
<snip>
>  They should be particularily willing to support Linux
> platforms because all of the man power is supplied for them by the
> community of Linux programmers.
<snip>
> I hope that this email will attract sufficient attention in all of the
> above organizations, and result in an AMD K7/3DNOW optimized compiler
> for the RedHat Linux platform sometime in the near future.  Your
> attentiveness is most appreciated.
> |
>     Jason Andrade


I know this is not really a bug and hence not appropriate for this
mailing list, but I simply want to point out the problem with 
Jason's approach.  He's a programmer. He wants a particular thing
from the GNU effort.  He points out that AMD should help
because it will leverage the 'man power ... supplied by the community'.
However, he is not providing a program that he worked on himself.
There is a flaw in this picture.  The community is US. WE are the
community.  Since Jason knows the right groups to send this to,
Jason is in the community too.
This isn't magic.  Any time the community does something,
it is because individuals take time and energy and do it.

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