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- From: bjork@telebit.com (Steven Bjork)
- Subject: Money issues, was Re: Rating of gcc in Unix Review
- Message-ID: <1992Jul29.165552.13925@telebit.com>
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- Organization: Telebit Corporation; Sunnyvale, CA, USA
- References: <156eo7INN6d3@betty.cs.widener.edu>
- Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 16:55:52 GMT
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- In article <156eo7INN6d3@betty.cs.widener.edu> brendan@cs.widener.edu (Brendan Kehoe) writes:
- >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.
-
- (cynical mode on)
- Of course any magazine will rate any (possible) advertiser's
- product above any non-advertiser's product.
- (cynical mode standby)
-
- --Steven
-