Introduction of GCC improvement work for Itanium via Gelato Federation

[Steven Bosscher]

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.

Or let's put it this way: Would AdaCore have the resources to
support two entirely different backends.  Would it even want to
hire new engineers or let its existing work-force learn compiler
internals of another compiler to support just one target?  I don't
think so.

Gr.
Steven