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Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 16:04:59 -0800 (PST)
From: "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <znmeb@aracnet.com>
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Subject: Re: Regression testing of 2.4.x before release?
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On Fri, 11 Jan 2002, Daniel Phillips wrote:

> On November 12, 2001 07:24 am, Dan Kegel wrote:
> > At some point it might be nice to also use the STP to help speed gcc
> > 3 development, too.  (I personally am really looking forward to the
> > day when I can use the same compiler for both c++ and kernel.)
>
> You already can, at least I can because gcc3 builds recent kernels
> just fine.  IOW, it works for me.  Conservatively, it's good to keep
> the old compiler around (choose your poison) for those few apps that
> don't build with gcc, but I feel quite comfortable at the moment
> having gcc3 as my default.

One particular application for which gcc 3.x *and* gcc 2.96.x are
seriously deficient, at least on Intel/AMD 32-bit systems, is the
high-performance linear algebra library Atlas. As a result, *my* default
for compiling numerical applications is the Atlas-recommended one,
2.95.3. For the kernel, I use whatever the Red Hat 7.2 default is.
-- 
M. Edward Borasky
znmeb@borasky-research.net

The COUGAR Project
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