On 23/01/13 19:16, Uday Khedker wrote:
On Thursday 24 January 2013 12:39 AM, Diego Novillo wrote:
On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 12:18 PM, Uday Khedker <u...@cse.iitb.ac.in>
wrote:
I would like to take this training program to the next level but so
long
it remains my personal baby, my funding agency does not feel that I
have
accomplished much because they feel that if my program has any merit,
the GCC community would adopt it :-(
I would say they have it backwards. The GCC community is the last one
who'd adopt such a training program. We already know the content!
This kind of training is precisely targeted at newcomers.
Yes, absolutely. And GCC community should consider it important to
bring in newcomers particularly young students and experimenters from
the academia.
Why is it that most student projects these days are on LLVM and not on
GCC? Had these students been doing projects on GCC, some of them may
turn contributors in future.
Uday.
I really have a theory here, I think (like me! I came here in the hope
of 'fixing' GCC from what I thought it was to what it is because I,
suppose I am loyal, I don't really like BSD, the lack of obligation to
keep things free, anyway that'll start a dispute probably so don't
worry) it's all the bad press, my impression was GCC is really old and
archaic, not very good for developing new optimisations, had a crap IR
and there was this newcomer that only made these problems known because
it fixes them.
I know now that most of them were wrong BTW!
Alec