Re: More NEWS on GCC?

[Rafael Ávila de Espíndola <rafael dot espindola at gmail dot com>]

On Tuesday 30 August 2005 01:49, Timothy Miller wrote:
> me a minor revision of the Linux
> kernel comes out, there's no scarcity of news articles written about
> it. ?Indeed, any time something interesting happens, someone writes an
> article about it, like for instance, you may recall the time when Ingo
> Molnar added the O(1) scheduler and the numerous articles that
> followed on KernelTrap.org, osnews.com, etc.
>
> Well, to me, the compiler technology is at least as interesting as OS
> development or anything else for that matter. ?It's complicated
> business to design a compiler to optimize well for numerous
> architectures, and I'm facinated by the rare (if sha
One problem is that compiler technology generally requires more background 
then OS:
1) the new O(1) scheduler
2) the new PCI interface
or
1) the new SSA based intermediate representation
2) the new DFA based pipeline hazard recognizer

To mitigate the problem, I suggest that you subscribe to the wiki RSS feed :)

Rafael

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