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Re: Introduction of GCC improvement work for Itanium via GelatoFederation
- From: Gerald Pfeifer <gerald at pfeifer dot com>
- To: Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>
- Cc: "Vladimir N. Makarov" <vmakarov at redhat dot com>, mksmith at gelato dot org, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, Gelato-GCC <gelato-gcc at gelato dot unsw dot edu dot au>
- Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 18:28:10 +0200 (CEST)
- Subject: Re: Introduction of GCC improvement work for Itanium via GelatoFederation
- References: <01b601c5b3f5$eb25ce50$db8d7e82@smith> <4321A08F.7050404@redhat.com><4325C744.90100@codesourcery.com>
On Mon, 12 Sep 2005, Mark Mitchell wrote:
> In summary, I think that splitting GCC optimization efforts between FSF
> and ORC back-ends is unfortunate. I would far rather that the free
> software community be united behind a single optimizer. But,
> fundamentally, I don't see much that we can do about it -- unless
> someone is sitting on a patch for making Itanium performance
> dramatically better. I think the best that we can do is to try to help
> identify what it is that makes ORC perform better and adopt those same
> strategies for FSF GCC.
Do I understand correctly that the new backend is not planned to be
included in FSF GCC?
(If so, I'm wondering what it's going to buy the interested parties,
because I have a hard time seeing one of the large GNU/Linux distributors
switching to a compiler different from FSF GCC for Itanium.)
Competition and exchange of ideas are always a good idea, though.
Gerald