More NEWS on GCC?

[Nicholas Nethercote]

On Tue, 30 Aug 2005, Rafael Ávila de Espíndola wrote:

> 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

I don't think the compiler technology is much more complicated to describe 
than the OS technology.  All four of those concepts would require at least 
a little background explanation to non-OS and non-compiler people.

Timothy has a good point.  GCC is arguably more important than the Linux 
kernel, yet it gets very little press and recognition.  Note also that 
everybody loves Linux (more or less) but people mostly bitch about GCC if 
they think about it at all.  Perhaps these facts are connected?

Nick