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On Friday 15 December 2006 05:50, Scott Long wrote:
> Yes, the industry moves fast, but that's no reason to fool ourselves
> into thinking that the FSF will support GCC 4.2 a day after they release
> 4.3 and start working on 4.4.  Your point above about the lifespan of
> FreeBSD 7.x is a valid one, and I agree that it should be a
> consideration.  Vendor support is a myth and should not be a
> consideration.

Not to mention it is *trivial* to install a compiler using ports or package=
s.

If you are serious about high performance computing installing a new compil=
er=20
is about the lowest barrier you'll find.

(Unless of course you need all the libraries compiled with OpenMP support=20
before your binary can use it)

=2D-=20
Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
"The nice thing about standards is that there
are so many of them to choose from."
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