Month: December 2010
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Healthy Expenses
The long-term budget forecast for the U.S. federal government looks dire. This is almost entirely due to health care costs. People talk about social security going bankrupt, but that is actually easy to fix with relatively minor tweaks, such as increasing the income limit for which people pay social security taxes, and/or increasing the retirement…
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Gccgo in GCC
I committed the gccgo frontend to the mainline of gcc yesterday. Getting to this point was a long series of steps to get the various supporting patches approved. This means that gccgo will definitely be available in the gcc 4.6 release, which will happen sometime early next year. There is still quite a lot of…