GCC 4.0 vs. 3.5

[Paul Schlie]

Sorry, please ignore, dumb confused thought.

> 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?  :>