GCC 4.9.0 Released, Brings Many Compiler Features

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GCC 4.9.0 Released, Brings Many Compiler Features

22 April 2014, 09:40 AM

Phoronix: GCC 4.9.0 Released, Brings Many Compiler Features

Jakub Jelinek on behalf of all the GNU Compiler Collection developers associated with the Free Software Foundation, has announced the official release of the GCC 4.9 compiler...

GCC 4.9.0 Released, Brings Many Compiler Features - Phoronix

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22 April 2014, 11:54 AM

I have run some benchmarks on Firefox and GCC 4.9/LLVM with and w/o LTO.

Linktime optimization in GCC, part 2 - Firefox

http://hubicka.blogspot.ca/2014/04/linktime-optimization-in-gcc-2-firefox.html

This time I will write about building Firefox with LTO. Firefox is one of largest binaries on my hard drive (beaten only by Chromium) so it ...

LTO builds are now possible on 4GB up (though at 4GB machine one needs to play with the parallelism and partitioning) and it brings some measurable improvements.
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