Two reasons here: 1) Ubuntu Precise is reaching EOL, though Travis CI may take care of it. we still can move to Trusty earlier as I didn't see any dependency of Precise here. 2) g++4.8 is built-in in Travis CI's Ubuntu Trusty environment, which means we don't need to spend time on adding ppa repository, apt update and apt install, could save time on the CI.
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