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Will this even work? - Maybe
Authored by: Anonymous on Jul 23, '02 01:06:09PM

I would rather go with Apple's gcc3 as it is posted in the April DevTools.
I think the other one will work, since Apple submits changes back and those for mere BSD-compatibility will probably be folded in (why shouldn't they).

However, Apple's version includes some auto-vectorization features to push sequences of floating-point ops into AltiVec Ops to achive notable speedups - these optimizations are not likely to be folded in soon.

I think this is well documented with the Dev-Tools, and probably these optimizations are the reason for a part of the 10.2 speedup. (Even if you don't have a QE-compatible Mac.

Regards,
iSee



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