On Wed, Jul 31, 2002 at 03:39:58PM +0000, matthew yee-king wrote: > Hello! > > I'm probably going to put debian on my laptop (i've recently been converted > from redhat/ yellowdog loyalties). > > just wondering if anyone knows much about gcc3 - for example, i've > heard it can generated binaries optimised for altivec. if this is the > case, would it be possible to build the whole OS using gcc3 and if > you did this, would it run like lightning on a g4?
That's not correct. It can handle hand-written Altivec code but it will not produce it automatically. > are there any plans to build a gcc3/ altivec g4 only distro/ debian port? Nope. But Debian will be switching to GCC 3.2 soon. -- Daniel Jacobowitz Carnegie Mellon University MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer
