The entire realm of open-source software could get a performance
boost if all goes well with a plan to overhaul a crucial programming
tool called GCC.

Almost all open-source software is built with GCC, a compiler that
converts a program's source code--the commands written by humans in
high-level languages such as C--into the binary instructions a
computer understands. The forthcoming GCC 4.0 includes a new
foundation that will allow that translation to become more
sophisticated, said Mark Mitchell, the GCC 4 release manager
and "chief sourcerer" of a small company called CodeSourcery.

"The primary purpose of 4.0 was to build an optimization
infrastructure that would allow the compiler to generate much better
code," Mitchell said.

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