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GCC gets a new register allocator

The GNU Compiler Collection, GCC, has a new register allocator. "Michael Matz of SuSE, Daniel Berlin, and Denis Chertykov have contributed a new register allocator. IBM and Rice University have allowed use of their register allocator software patents for graph coloring and register coalescing."
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