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Romashka

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Registered: 2005-12-07

Posts: 1,054

GlobalGCC

[urk=The GlobalGCC project launches]http://lwn.net/Articles/207020/[/url]

In an effort to empower the mainline GCC4 compiler from FSF (which
focuses on code generation quality and compilation speed) with advanced
compile-time techniques, the GGCC (ITEA) project aims at integrating
into a GCC4 branch sophisticated program-wide compile-time analyses.  As
a result of that, it is expected that GGCC be more resource consuming
(e.g., it could run 10 times slower than the GCC4 compiler).  In return
for that speed loss, more program bugs are expected to be pinpointed,
and programmers will be able to state properties to be met in their
code.  Additionally, all the good characteristics of GGCC (high-quality
code, number of available back-ends, etc.) are expected to be kept.

More interesting info is at article above.

To GCC gurus here: how many projects could benefit from such modified GCC? Gnome, KDE, OOo what else?

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xerverius

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Registered: 2004-11-02

Posts: 230

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Re: GlobalGCC

Every application will benefit if it contains more then 1 file of source code.