[luau] NEWS: gcc 3.1 out

[Warren Togami]

Neat!  Here's one bit from the CHANGELOG.

a.. SPEC2000 and SPEC95 benchmark suites are now used daily to monitor
performance of the generated code.

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.


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Subject: [luau] NEWS: gcc 3.1 out


> The next minor version of gcc is out.
>
> Changelog: http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-3.1/changes.html
> Mirrors: http://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html
>
> This release focused more on quality than features according to one GCC
> developer.
>
> It also seems that my concerns regarding x86-64 are no longer needed as
> there's a large mention of SuSE's contribution of x86-64 code to gcc.