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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Upgrading gcc: both 4.4 and 4.5 needed?
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On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 03:29:27PM +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote:
> > what does "graphite" add ?
> >
> 
> It makes gcc-4.5.3 use a newer method to detect parallelism, thus
> (potentially) makes programs compiled by gcc to have better multithreaded
> performance.

Now, why can't the USE descriptions be like the kernel option
descriptions and have something like what Pandu wrote included? 

W

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