Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 14:50:30 +1030 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Cc: Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au> Subject: Re: Let's use gcc-4.2, not 4.1 -- OpenMP Message-ID: <200612151450.39260.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <4581A3E3.9060807@samsco.org> References: <20061213192150.CF83D16A417@hub.freebsd.org> <20061214183026.GA1532@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org> <4581A3E3.9060807@samsco.org>
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--nextPart1402913.g5vAOH2ge4 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline 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." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart1402913.g5vAOH2ge4 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBFgiKX5ZPcIHs/zowRAujyAJ9HNLHbEwUfZlrE+0Ot2tZRXTbKhQCfbciu 7mdnmIHflWlsC+Kj/d3nAtQ= =MXIn -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1402913.g5vAOH2ge4--
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