Pragmatic, I would guess. "Quite frankly, I'd like there to be more competition in the open source compiler game, and that might cause some upheavals, but on t

Pragmatic, I would guess. "Quite frankly, I'd like there to be more competition in the open source compiler game, and that might cause some upheavals, but on the whole, gcc actually does a pretty damn good job." http://kerneltrap.org/Linux/Volatile_Performance http://kerneltrap.org/Linux/Volatile_Performance