Addition to GCC 3.0 release criteria

[Mark Mitchell]

>>>>> "Dave" == Dave Moore <sponk@my-Deja.com> writes:

    Dave>  Hello,

    Dave>  It has been my experience that G++ is severely lacking when
    Dave> it comes to optimizing highly templated code.  The compile
    Dave> jobs tend to run forever, and often crash because they use
    Dave> up all of the physical and virtual memory.  Since extensive
    Dave> use of templating is a powerful tool for improving the
    Dave> run-time performance of C++ code, it seems that it would be
    Dave> worthwhile to improve the compile-time performance of G++
    Dave> when optimizing templated code.

That is precisely why POOMA II was chosen as the application
benchmark.  Trust me -- if we can get that stuff to compile with
optimization on in a reasonable period of time, we'll have made big
progress.  We're getting there.

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