Introduction of GCC improvement work for Itanium via Gelato Federation

[Gerald Pfeifer]

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