Software Update: GCC 3.1

DJ Buzzz informed us that the GCC team has released a new version of their widely used compiler. The new version includes support for Ada and optimizations for the AMD Athlon series processors. Below is a quote from the changelog†

According to the SPECInt2000 results on an AMD Athlon CPU, the code generated by GCC 3.1 is 6% faster on the average (8.2% faster with profile feedback) compared to GCC 3.0. The code produced by GCC 3.0 is about 2.1% faster compared to 2.95.3. Tests were done using the -O2 -march=athlon command-line options.