From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Jan 10 20:44:16 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from evil.2y.net (port-1-181.adsl.one.net [216.23.20.181]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46CB3153A2 for ; Mon, 10 Jan 2000 20:44:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cokane@evil.2y.net) Received: (from cokane@localhost) by evil.2y.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id XAA13690; Mon, 10 Jan 2000 23:46:40 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from cokane) Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 23:46:40 -0500 From: Coleman Kane To: "David O'Brien" Cc: Coleman Kane , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: When does the 4.x branch go stable? Message-ID: <20000110234640.A98425@evil.2y.net> References: <20000109214046.7913BA54DB@netcom1.netcom.com> <20000110004054.A1181@evil.2y.net> <20000110094834.D94525@relay.nuxi.com> <20000110153703.A19250@evil.2y.net> <20000110203645.D62163@dragon.nuxi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <20000110203645.D62163@dragon.nuxi.com>; from obrien@NUXI.com on Mon, Jan 10, 2000 at 11:37:25PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG David O'Brien had the audacity to say: > Yes, but I have yet to have *anyone* post any numbers that show that > using `pgcc' made their system "faster". > Some other guy just put up a link to his page showing performance gain of about 25% using gcc-2.95 vs gcc-2.7. > I have heard from people that `pgcc' made this system less stable. > `pgcc' is an experimental testing grounds for new IA-32 optimizations. > This implies the code it produces may not be the most robust. Me, I'll > only use a world and kernel built by a released version of GCC. > The only thing I was pointing out was that the sources were not fully compatible with gcc-2.95. I understand that, and was simply following up to another post here. > > > there is also a port in /usr/ports/lang/pgcc. > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > Like no kidding. Who do you think made that port and maintains it?? > Geez. > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message