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- From: brendan@cs.widener.edu (Brendan Kehoe)
- Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss
- Subject: Rating of gcc in Unix Review
- Date: 29 Jul 1992 11:50:31 -0400
- Organization: Widener University Computer Science Dept, Chester PA
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- This month's issue of Unix Review compares four C compilers (MetaWare,
- GCC, Sun's unbundled C, and Lucid C). They really trash GCC, giving
- it F's on Installation because it's distributed as source, and "N/A"
- on documentation, claiming it includes none. (They define
- documentation as printed and bound books, not electronic, apparently;
- at least to the extent that Sun's Answerbook will fall under the
- umbrella.) In the area of overall performance, they claim MetaWare
- and Lucid lead the pack, with GCC behind Sun's unbundled C. Hmm.
-
- Had they compared GCC with respect to how Cygnus distributes it (with
- much of what they were looking for in the area of really quick
- turnaround between cutting the shrink-wrap and being able to compile),
- the report card probably would've looked different in a few places, I
- think.
-
- Really strange, their approach with the testing.
-
- --
- Brendan Kehoe, Sun Network Manager brendan@cs.widener.edu
- Widener University Chester, PA
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