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- From: davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen)
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- Subject: Re: PC Unix/Xenix vendors
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.205859.24123@crd.ge.com>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 20:58:59 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan20.163215.12957@sbcs.sunysb.edu>, shane@cs.sunysb.edu (Shane Bouslough) writes:
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- | Don't be too quick to let GCC's reputation cloud your judgement.
- | Where I work, we find Sun's new compiler to be about the same as GCC
- | a lot of the time. And on my Dell SVR4 system, the stock compiler
- | is as good if not better than GCC most of the time, esp. in speed of
- | compile.
-
- Agreed, Dell rel 2.2 has gcc 1.4, gcc 2.2 and cc, and there is no
- clear "best" in terms of performance of the generated code. Moreover,
- the versions of gcc don't require the same options to generate optimal
- code, so it's an adventure if you need best code. Most of my stuff won't
- justify an hour of testing to save 5% or so, and for almost all programs
- that's the magnitude of the advantage.
- --
- bill davidsen, GE Corp. R&D Center; Box 8; Schenectady NY 12345
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