I'm struggling to figure out what your point is. Could you elaborate? GCC is only slightly older than Linux or BSD. Do you think those programs are gigantic pi

I'm struggling to figure out what your point is. Could you elaborate? GCC is only slightly older than Linux or BSD. Do you think those programs are gigantic piles of outdated and barely maintainable code? GCC produces the faster code than clang by a significant margin. (ICC produces faster code than GCC, but you need to pay for it and buy Intel hardware. MSVC is obviously garbage.) Its LTO optimizes more stuff than clang's, despite clang pioneering the idea. So sure, it's old, but it's best in class at what it does. 2.95 brings back memories though. It's why I switched from Slackware to Gentoo. Some random application I used didn't compile with 2.95 and required gcc-3. But configuring gcc-3 was still a huge pain with most distros, Gentoo was literally the only one where gcc-3 could be configured as the primary compiler. Those were the days.