gcc-4.5-RH in F14

[Brandon Lozza]

On 7/8/10, Adam Williamson <awilliam at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-07-08 at 11:31 -0400, Brandon Lozza wrote:
>
> > A mass rebuild would be recommended as the new compiler will produce
>  > faster code. I believe everything will benefit and it's worth looking
>  > into. For example I noticed a significant difference on the OpenSUSE
>  > distro when GCC was upgraded and they repackaged their software with
>  > it in their development version 11.3. Anecdotal for sure but
>  > everything seemed faster than the build before that change. Phoronix
>
>
> Adam's Law Of Software Advances:
>
>  People On The Internet always believe that any particular incremental
>  change produces something faster than before ('Firefox 3.5.6 feels much
>  snappier than Firefox 3.5.5!'), but that everything is always slower
>  than it was in previous major versions / years ('Man, Firefox 3 is so
>  much slower than Firefox 1!')
>
>  (Appendix 1: the word 'snappier' is always used in this context.)
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gcc 4.5 with LTO is faster though, thats what is making opensuse faster