gcc-4.5.0 Success Story with Freecell Solver

[Shlomi Fish]

On Wednesday 16 Jun 2010 22:40:42 Diego Iastrubni wrote:
> On יום רביעי 16 יוני 2010 13:47:35 Shlomi Fish wrote:
> > > To make a good comparison, please to boostrap clang properly (you need
> > > at least stage2, in theory from that point all binaries should be
> > > identical). Building clang here does take about an hour or two, yes,
> > > builind a C++ compiler is a long compilation.
> > 
> > Indeed.
> > 
> > In any case, I don't suppose the benchmark results of fc-solve itself
> > will be different, because the output of the compiler should be the same
> > in both cases, right?
> 
> The difference between theory and practice is that in theory there is no
> difference between theory and practice.

And in practice there is. :-)

> 
> -> please test and continue every several days, as clang evolves in HUGE
> steps very fast. I can still remember a few weeks ago when the compiler
> self hoseted for me for the first time.

In theory I can do that. In practice, I also need to make some actual progress 
with my projects. Maybe I'll test clang again in another month.

> 
> Just for reference, how can I do those test myself? Where is your SVN
> (git?) for me to test new code?

See:

http://svn.berlios.de/svnroot/repos/fc-solve/trunk/

I'm still using svn. See the *.txt files under ./fc-solve/source/ . Let me 
know if there's anything else that you need.

Regards,

	Shlomi Fish

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