On Sun, 8 Nov 2009, Joern Rennecke wrote: > With a plugin, the developer can simply point the user at the place where > he can download the plugin for his current version, and we can get quick > feedback on the usefulness of the new optimization.
Except that, based on what Richard and Basile discussed, you may need a different (binary) plugin for different minor versions of GCC (and, possibly, different vendor versions of GCC). All of which terribly reminds me of the painful (for end users, ISVs, IHVs, OSVs,...) situation we have with the Linux kernel and out-of-tree modules. Gerald
