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Am I imagining things or has there been an increase in the frequency of releases of gcc (I understand that this is a bugfix point release) since clang started t
by KaeseEs 15y ago
Am I imagining things or has there been an increase in the frequency of releases of gcc (I understand that this is a bugfix point release) since clang started to become popular?
- Arelius 15y agoThe actual count of releases hasn't been much higher than normal. But recently a number of previously more experimental or controversial features have been released. IMO, the main one that likely wouldn't have been released without the Clang/LLVM pressure is the plugin interface that has been around in branches for many years.
- drv 15y agoYou can see the release history at http://gcc.gnu.org/releases.html http://gcc.gnu.org/releases.html Here's number of releases per year (from all branches): - 2011: 6 - 2010: 7 - 2009: 5 - 2008: 5 - 2007: 5 - 2006: 4 - 2005: 6 - 2004: 7 - 2003: 5 - 2002: 5 So at a high level, it doesn't look like the GCC release frequency has changed much in the last decade.
- stephen_g 15y agoI don't think it has (or will) make a huge difference - gcc has always been competing with commercial compilers (and to a lesser extent, open source compilers like pcc) so it's never really had much of a reason to stagnate.