GCC 4.0 Preview 684
Reducer2001 writes "News.com is running a story previewing GCC 4.0. A quote from the article says, '(included will be) technology to compile programs written in Fortran 95, an updated version of a decades-old programming language still popular for scientific and technical tasks, Henderson said. And software written in the C++ programming language should run faster--"shockingly better" in a few cases.'"
watch out (Score:5, Funny)
Is this the programmer's way of saying it will run at some speed less than faster?
Screenshots! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:watch out (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Screenshots! (Score:5, Funny)
Knock yourself out, bud!
Re:Screenshots! (Score:5, Funny)
http://www.algorithm.com.au/albums/screenshots/lo
Gentoo system rebuild! (Score:4, Funny)
(I'm especially excited by the possibility of random compiler incompatibilities!)
Decades old? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:I just want C++ programs to COMPILE faster (Score:5, Funny)
What?!? (Score:5, Funny)
Are you going to rob us? At first I thought that was your joke, but the more I think about it, the more I wonder if, being a part of the gcc team, you are inserting insidious code to look for credit card and bank account numbers on the disk during compiles and use steganography to embed them in executables; no one else would know about them, and all you'd need is a robot crawling download pages, looking for binaries with some magic code somewhere
The little bit of extra disk thrashing during the combined compile and search would never be noticed, and no one looking at compiled machine lanuage ever wonders why it is so odd looking. They just assume it's because of some new fangled optimization.
My god you are devious rascals!
Re:C++ compiler (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Gentoo system rebuild! (Score:5, Funny)
We now actually detect when GCC is running on a Gentoo system, and will occasionally miscompile an inner loop, just to make you twitch. The biggest complaint we received from Gentoo users during the 3.x series was that GCC was too boring, so we threw this in to keep you on your toes.
Cheers!
Re:Compiler (Score:4, Funny)
Nope.
Oh, did you mean all SOURCE CODE compilers?
See, the word compiler was around before computers, and is only synonymous with "source code compiler" to geeks like us.
Therefore in your attempt to be pedantic, you clearly were not being pedantic enough, thus the joke is on you.
Ha-ha...
quote... (Score:5, Funny)
--not Benjamin Franklin
Re:I just want C++ programs to COMPILE faster (Score:2, Funny)
Not yet... (Score:1, Funny)
Re:I just want C++ programs to COMPILE faster (Score:1, Funny)
Classic example of /. modding... (Score:2, Funny)
Don't know why I bother writing this, none's going to read it now...