Subject: Re: GCC to retire VAX support!?
To: Dave McGuire <mcguire@neurotica.com>
From: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>
List: port-vax
Date: 06/20/2002 14:40:35
On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 05:39:28PM -0400, Dave McGuire wrote:

 >   I'm an accomplished programmer, but compiler technology isn't my
 > strong suit.  Perhaps there are some other areas of GCC's
 > innards...general non-compiler-related speedup techniques (hash tables
 > vs. searching arrays, that sort of thing) that might need some
 > attention, but I suspect issues of that sort would have been dealt
 > with long ago.

You'd be surprised.  There's a lot of stupid algorithmic things
in there that could be fixed.

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        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>