On 5/2/05, Neil Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes. A lot of stuff simply will not compile with it. The rest tend to > produce large and slow executables. I wouldn't use it for anything yet. > 3.4.x is the best to date.
Are there any evidence of said bloat and poor performance with 4.0 or do you base it on hearsay? :-) I studied a lot of assembly output on the pre-release versions of 4.0 and the optimizer has really improved compared to the older series. I would imagine stuff not compiling is mostly because the C++ standard has moved considerably over the last years, and a lot of software which caters for GCC 2.95 isn't well-formed given the latest revision of the standard. That said, it usually takes a minor revision (i.e. 4.1) before a compiler is generally usable for a distro. I remember all the breakage when GCC 3.0 was introduced.. // Andreas -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
