Re: What about a non-free compiler? (Re: new port: debian-win32. when ?)

[Robert Bihlmeyer <robbe@orcus.priv.at>]

Eray Ozkural <erayo@cs.bilkent.edu.tr> writes:

> > Of course, nobody's stopping you trying out non-free, non-distributable
> > compilers for yourself, but let's not start using them to build
> > distributed Debian packages.
> 
> I wonder if it would make any performance difference;
> then such packages would be very valuable for a high performance
> computing application.

Why don't you put work into a framework that lets one easily install
*and* update Debian packages from source. E.g.

apt-get --source upgrade

would fetch new source-packages for anything needing an upgrade,
build, and install them.

This way you can arrange for this super-compiler to be default on your
system, all your stuff will be ultra-optimized. This will benefit all
people with super-compilers, plus the mundanes which just want
everything done with "gcc -march=pentiumpro -O9".

-- 
Robbe