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Re:What every compiler writer should know about programmers ... by bluecalm on Thursday March 03, 2016 @09:45PM (#11221729)
These guys put thousands of hours to maintain and improve a compiler you get for free. Thousands of programmers welcome each and every release jumping to a change log. Every major GCC version lately introduced significant optimizer improvements, new diagnostics, new warnings, faster compile time etc.

How can you claim these guys aren't helping "us" is beyond me. I am developing a small project with just a little over 1000 customers. GCC team efforts over last few years saved thousands of dollars in hardware and electricity costs as well as hundred of hours of computation just because GCC 5.3 produced very significantly faster code than GCC 4.x for low x.

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Re:What every compiler writer should know about programmers ... by pjmlp on Friday March 04, 2016 @04:21AM (#11222794)
The part you are forgetting is that the commercial compiler vendors do the same things.

These issues aren't specific to gcc, rather to the culture of C and C++ compiler writers, regardless how those compilers are developed.

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