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- From: kline@cs.arizona.edu (Nick Kline)
- Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss
- Subject: Re: Rating of gcc in Unix Review
- Keywords: Unix Review C Compiler test rate evaluate gcc GNU 1.40 2.0
- Message-ID: <19865@optima.cs.arizona.edu>
- Date: 30 Jul 92 22:45:48 GMT
- References: <29JUL199218375075@stars.gsfc.nasa.gov> <1992Jul29.231411.27588@chpc.utexas.edu> <l7gpipINNjp6@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM>
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- Organization: U of Arizona CS Dept, Tucson
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- >that Sun's C compiler might generally be faster. We're not stupid
- >here, after all -- if we couldn't turn out better compilers (in the
- >opinion of some number of compiler customers), we'd all go do
- >something else.
- >
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- No one says Sun is stupid. But there are many many conservative
- companies that would buy sun's compilers even if it was demonstrably
- inferior in price, performance and support. I'm not saying that is
- is inferior to gcc, but gcc is probably better in many, if not most
- ways.
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- And when said companies see a (obviously misleading) review as was
- printed recently in Unix Review, that just justifies their opinions.
-
- -nick
- kline@cs.arizona.edu
- my opinion
-