On Thu, 2005-12-08 at 13:35 +0100, Thomas M Steenholdt wrote: > Jakub Jelinek wrote: > > Hi! > > > > Some time between today and tomorrow we plan to switch Fedora development > > primary compiler from GCC 4.0.2-RH to 4.1.0-RH prerelease. > > We hope GCC 4.1.0 will be officially released in time for the > > Fedora Core 5 release, but if we want to switch, we need to do it now > > so that the compiler and packages built with it are sufficiently tested. > > > Cool, > > Do anyone have an idea if gcc4.1 is going to affect Fedora overall > performance at all or in either good/bad ways? one thing that will be good is that this version of gcc automatically detects that variables are never written to, and puts then in a special ELF section; the result is that shared libs and binaries share that memory between them instead of one for each app, and the total memory usage of fedora will go down a bit as a result! -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
