Only six months since 4.8 was released. Is GCC moving to a more regular release schedule?
What's wrong with every every 6 months? It's not like bug fix releases aren't dropped in the meantime.
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GCC 4.9 Release Series – Changes, New Features, and Fixes
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Re: GCC 4.9 Release Series – Changes, New Features, and Fixes
#12I like the addition of color the compile log. It's might be easier reading compile failures now.
Re: GCC 4.9 Release Series – Changes, New Features, and Fixes
#13> Memory usage building Firefox with debug enabled was reduced from 15GB to 3.5GB; link time from 1700 seconds to 350 seconds. This is huge- you can now do this on a laptop
well, you could do it on a laptop before, you just needed a much beefier laptop. But that's really impressive, how did they cut the resource usage to a quarter of previous usage?
Re: GCC 4.9 Release Series – Changes, New Features, and Fixes
#14> Memory usage building Firefox with debug enabled was reduced from 15GB to 3.5GB; link time from 1700 seconds to 350 seconds. This is huge- you can now do this on a laptop
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Re: GCC 4.9 Release Series – Changes, New Features, and Fixes
#15GCC 4.9 hasn't yet been released (and won't be until after Easter). Currently there's only a release candidate. See http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gcc.devel/135470
Interesting the main page http://gcc.gnu.org/ lists 4.9 as the current release as opposed to Development release.
Re: GCC 4.9 Release Series – Changes, New Features, and Fixes
#16> Memory usage building Firefox with debug enabled was reduced from 15GB to 3.5GB; link time from 1700 seconds to 350 seconds. This is huge- you can now do this on a laptop
well, you could do it on a laptop before, you just needed a much beefier laptop. But that's really impressive, how did they cut the resource usage to a quarter of previous usage?
I am very curious too. Such drastic improvements often indicates something wrong before (either in design or implementation) that got fixed.
Re: GCC 4.9 Release Series – Changes, New Features, and Fixes
#17Seems like competition from clang led to some really practical improvements.
I use whatever compiler is defined in the makefile or called for in a README. Needless to say I do not really follow developments in either camp closely. I am curious what improvements are the result of "competition" from clang?
Re: GCC 4.9 Release Series – Changes, New Features, and Fixes
#18I wish latex/lualatex/xelatex would colorize their logs.
Re: GCC 4.9 Release Series – Changes, New Features, and Fixes
#19I wish latex/lualatex/xelatex would colorize their logs.
I wish LaTeX would just limit their logs to information I need to see.
Re: GCC 4.9 Release Series – Changes, New Features, and Fixes
#20GCC 4.9 hasn't yet been released (and won't be until after Easter). Currently there's only a release candidate. See http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gcc.devel/135470
Interesting the main page http://gcc.gnu.org/ lists 4.9 as the current release as opposed to Development release.
If you follow the 4.9 link, you get to http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.9/ which states:
> As of this time no releases of GCC 4.9 have yet been made.