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Re: Introduction of GCC improvement work for Itanium via Gelato Federation

From: Vladimir Makarov <vmakarov at redhat dot com>
To: Steven Bosscher <steven at gcc dot gnu dot org>
Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, Robert Dewar <dewar at adacore dot com>, Gerald Pfeifer <gerald at pfeifer dot com>, Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>, mksmith at gelato dot org, Gelato-GCC <gelato-gcc at gelato dot unsw dot edu dot au>
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 09:49:40 -0400
Subject: Re: Introduction of GCC improvement work for Itanium via Gelato Federation
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Steven Bosscher wrote:

On Wednesday 14 September 2005 10:53, Robert Dewar wrote:

Gerald Pfeifer wrote:

(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.)

Surely this depends on relative performance ...
My guess is that there are more important things than performance,
such as stability, community support, maintenance burden, etc.

I would add single compiler for other linux (and non-linux) ports, more compact code for Itanium (sometimes 2 times more compact), many additional features (last ones are mudflap and stack protector). If it was perfomance only, people would have switched to Intel, ORC or Openimpact compilers long ago. But according Gelato poll, most of Itanium users (like 70%) prefer to use gcc than other compilers.

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