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Re: GCC 4.0 vs. 3.5
- From: Paul Schlie <schlie at comcast dot net>
- To: <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2004 11:11:36 -0400
- Subject: Re: GCC 4.0 vs. 3.5
Where then possibly the lno branch could then be merged into 3.5 (current
mainline) which could then also possibly serve as the basis for the ssa
merged 4.0?
> Paul Schlie wrote:
> Unless I misunderstood, the 3.5 performance in this context referred to
> mainline not ssa, so wonder if it makes sense to enable the current mainline
> to remain accessible as 3.5 as an evolution of 3.4 prior to it's merge with
> ssa, where mainline+ssa becomes 4.0?
>
>> Roger Sayle wrote:
>>> On Fri, 16 Apr 2004, Mark Mitchell wrote:
>>> So, if we're switching to 4.0 it should be because the code we generate
>>> is far better. Not that some code is slightly better, or that we have
>>> the infrastructure we need to generate far better code -- but that much
>>> actual code is actually far better.
>>
>> I guess the recent thread "100% speed improvement 3.4 -> 3.5 for ia64!"
>> http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2004-04/msg00646.html might support the 4.0
>> argument? :>