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manawy
10y ago
I have no doubt they do, but still... The question is : are the DOD/DOE (or the chinese/european equivalent) going to risk millions for their next supercomputers on a new architecture or prefer good old intel ? Especially when we
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manawy
10y ago
or it could turn badly for the others, it will not gain attraction if intel products are not supported Inertia is a very strong decisive factor, especially when you need to make sure that 30+ year-old code still work like it's the case
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manawy
11y ago
For your second example, this does not test for the compiler but for the provider of the SSL library. Clang does not provided it, so it's not a problem. But I get your point. My counter-argument is that more flexibility is left to the
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manawy
11y ago
I'd argue that for Qt this approach makes sense because they provide a well defined API that they stick too. The developer can also ask for specific component if it just want them (like QT GUI, QT SVG...). I agree that this is more pro
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manawy
11y ago
I'm not sure what you mean by databases of systems and features... I use CMake everyday and for me it's not a database but a set of modules. Each of this module will look for a particular thing. Some modules are better written tha
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manawy
11y ago
Yes, I'm really happy that GCC optimize that code away. Most of us don't care about security issue too much when using C/C++. We do use it for performance, and use it mostly locally. GCC is a very versatile code. It's ok