Why Should the ``Average'' Programmer Care

• Tree SSA work will be merged into mainline GCC in the near future (starting April 2004)

• Tree SSA compiler being tested on compile Fedora Core 2 distribution (80% compile):

  • 739 packages compiled
  • 176 package failed

• Provide better performance (new aggressive optimizations)

• Provide analysis (mudflap memory checking instrumentation)

• Comparision of gcc SSA vs. other compiler performance:

  • SPEC95 http://people.redhat.com/dnovillo/spec95/
  • SPEC 2000 http://people.redhat.com/dnovillo/spec2000/

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