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
