On Monday 21 May 2007 20:23:46 Bernardo Innocenti wrote: > Brooks Moses wrote: > > >> What about moving 4.3 to stage 3 *now* and moving everything > >> else in 4.4 instead? Hopefully, it will be a matter of just > >> a few months. From http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.3/changes.html, > >> it looks like it would already be quite a juicy release. > > > > Why? > > > > I mean, I suppose there could be advantages to doing this, but you > > haven't mentioned even one. > > I apologize. I guess you could get 10 different reasons > by 10 different people.
12++ > The reason _we_ care to get 4.3 sooner rather than later > is that we'd like to have the AMD Geode tuning and the > memcpy/strcpy() optimizations. > > And also: why not? Stabelizing a major release series and then continuing to maintain it is a time consuming efford. With a major series just started introducing the next just some months later sound like wasting a lot of our all time. Backporting the Geode and *cpy tuning for just you local use-case in contrast is not that hard at all. Yours, -- René Rebe - ExactCODE GmbH - Europe, Germany, Berlin http://exactcode.de | http://t2-project.org | http://rene.rebe.name
