> Just out of curiosity... regarding the new MingW-tools. What exactly is the > difference to the old ones? What is their purpose and what are they doing better?
They're newer and support newer C++ language features, they support more CPUs in -march=native if you do that sort of thing, and there are uncofirmed reports that a few drivers are substantially faster with them.
Also the new toolchain reportedly runs without incident on XP, which wasn't true of the previous one.
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