GCC Soars Past 14.5 Million Lines Of Code & I'm Real Excited For GCC 5

[Drago]

It would be great to see again which company contributed how much.

It is always interesting to see, that e.g. RedHat is heavily involved in most important projects whereas Canonical usually doesn't give back a whole lot to the community as they usually fork stuff, maintain their own patch-sets or simply prefer to do their own thing instead of building something great together (Unity, Mir, Upstart, ...).

Usually I will agree with you. Upstart, Mir are unnecessary/double work, but I really like Unity. It is the most lean environment for me. I tried Fedora 21 and Gnomes Hell for a while, but I got frustrated with the ugly fonts and so much vertical space wasted. I would like to ditch off Ubuntu, but the only viable alternative is OSX unfortunately.

[GreatEmerald]

Hm, no wonder why GCC compilation takes forever and doesn't even fit into 4 GiB tmpfs. But yes, optimisations are always nice.

I also hope GDC could be more readily available than it currently is...

[Linuxhippy]

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It would be great to see again which company contributed how much.

It is always interesting to see, that e.g. RedHat is heavily involved in most important projects whereas Canonical usually doesn't give back a whole lot to the community as they usually fork stuff, maintain their own patch-sets or simply prefer to do their own thing instead of building something great together (Unity, Mir, Upstart, ...).

[phoronix]

Phoronix: GCC Soars Past 14.5 Million Lines Of Code & I'm Real Excited For GCC 5

If you thought LLVM/Clang with just under four million lines was a huge code-base for a compiler as the entire Linux kernel is over 19 million lines, just wait until you see the current size of GCC...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTg3OTQ