More NEWS on GCC?
This is probably an odd request, but I'd like to see more news articles on GCC development. Every time a minor revision of the Linux kernel comes out, there's no scarcity of news articles written about it. Indeed, any time something interesting happens, someone writes an article about it, like for instance, you may recall the time when Ingo Molnar added the O(1) scheduler and the numerous articles that followed on KernelTrap.org, osnews.com, etc. Well, to me, the compiler technology is at least as interesting as OS development or anything else for that matter. It's complicated business to design a compiler to optimize well for numerous architectures, and I'm facinated by the rare (if shallow) snippets that people manage to write about GCC. Something as relatively minor as the removal of >? and
Re: More NEWS on GCC?
On 8/30/05, Nicholas Nethercote <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Timothy has a good point. GCC is arguably more important than the Linux > kernel, yet it gets very little press and recognition. Note also that > everybody loves Linux (more or less) but people mostly bitch about GCC if > they think about it at all. Perhaps these facts are connected? Oh, I see my share of bitching about Linux, and I'm not talking about the intelligent kind you get from developers (like what I see on the GCC Wiki). It's funny when you see a kernel expert (I mean that positively) make a boneheaded comment about GCC. :) But that's beside the point, and I agree with you that if GCC got more media attention, people would appreciate it more for its strengths and for its challenges that are far from trivial to fix.
