Re: [Final comments]Are we losing users to Gentoo?

[Alan Shutko <ats@acm.org>]

Gerfried Fuchs <alfie@ist.org> writes:

>  Uh?  Intel researched about gcc optimization efforts?  I thought they
> researched about processor optimization?

Well, yes.  That's where the Pentium GCC originally came from.[1]
Processor teams often have people working on compiler support, since
the improvements are often useless without use of new instructions,
careful instruction scheduling, or the like.

Footnotes: 
[1]  http://linux.cis.nctu.edu.tw/pcg/pgcc-faq.html#SEC0118

-- 
Alan Shutko <ats@acm.org> - In a variety of flavors!
Get your mind out of the gutter! Grab mine too, please!