On Tue, 13 Jun 2006, A. Wik wrote:

> How come there's such an apparent eagerness about upgrading GCC,
> anyway?  Typically the only noticeable change from an older
> version is the breakage of features and noticeable increases in
> memory consumption and compilation time.

I think it is a shame that gcc has such a monopoly with OSS projects.
Some competition would be good.  It appears others are considering
this -- see "Why haven't we seen an OpenCC":
	http://kerneltrap.org/node/6550

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