From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 15 04:21:12 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0FD3616A416 for ; Fri, 15 Dec 2006 04:21:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (cain.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4438E43CAF for ; Fri, 15 Dec 2006 04:19:31 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from inchoate.gsoft.com.au (ppp157-244.lns2.adl2.internode.on.net [121.44.157.244]) (authenticated bits=0) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.13.5/8.13.4) with ESMTP id kBF4L20C079670 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Fri, 15 Dec 2006 14:51:07 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 14:50:30 +1030 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.4 References: <20061213192150.CF83D16A417@hub.freebsd.org> <20061214183026.GA1532@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org> <4581A3E3.9060807@samsco.org> In-Reply-To: <4581A3E3.9060807@samsco.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1402913.g5vAOH2ge4"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200612151450.39260.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> X-Spam-Score: -1.315 () AWL,BAYES_00 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.57 on 203.31.81.10 Cc: Peter Jeremy Subject: Re: Let's use gcc-4.2, not 4.1 -- OpenMP X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 04:21:12 -0000 --nextPart1402913.g5vAOH2ge4 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline 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 package= s. If you are serious about high performance computing installing a new compil= er=20 is about the lowest barrier you'll find. (Unless of course you need all the libraries compiled with OpenMP support=20 before your binary can use it) =2D-=20 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 --nextPart1402913.g5vAOH2ge4 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBFgiKX5ZPcIHs/zowRAujyAJ9HNLHbEwUfZlrE+0Ot2tZRXTbKhQCfbciu 7mdnmIHflWlsC+Kj/d3nAtQ= =MXIn -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1402913.g5vAOH2ge4--