Work on free software has been a little slower, apart from more GCC patches, in the last several months. First, you just need to take a break sometimes; and second, I was working full-time as a webmaster, completely rewriting with CSS a one-year-old site that was using frames and table-based layout (!). I also made some other CSS-based sites in the meanwhile.

In GCC I did mostly two things: cleaning up the configury and allowing to bootstrap components of the toolchain other than the compiler itself (libcpp, libiberty, gas, etc.), and working on vector arithmetic. Work on the latter will be in 4.0, while the bootstrap stuff will have to wait for 4.1.

I've done more work on the glibc regex matcher recently, nothing paramount but it does give interesting speedups on some cases (even not-so-pathologic as .{1,2000}). I've also finished (or almost there) my IPv6 version of netcat.

The biggest news is that I moved from Milan and have just started a Ph.D. in Italian Switzerland. I don't know yet what I'll do my research on.