On Friday 15 December 2006 05:50, Scott Long wrote: > Yes, the industry moves fast, but that's no reason to fool ourselves > into thinking that the FSF will support GCC 4.2 a day after they release > 4.3 and start working on 4.4. Your point above about the lifespan of > FreeBSD 7.x is a valid one, and I agree that it should be a > consideration. Vendor support is a myth and should not be a > consideration. Not to mention it is *trivial* to install a compiler using ports or packages. If you are serious about high performance computing installing a new compiler is about the lowest barrier you'll find. (Unless of course you need all the libraries compiled with OpenMP support before your binary can use it) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C
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