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- From: kentd@FtCollins.NCR.com (Kent Dalton)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: DICE (was: Distressed Damsel needs C Compiler!)
- Message-ID: <KENTD.92Sep11103817@zappa.FtCollins.NCR.com>
- Date: 11 Sep 92 09:38:17 GMT
- References: <1992Aug26.220430.13504@ultb.isc.rit.edu>
- <1992Sep09.162909.3081@CS.ORST.EDU>
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- Organization: NCR Microelectronics, Ft. Collins, CO
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- In-reply-to: divineg@prism.cs.orst.edu's message of 9 Sep 92 16:29:09 GMT
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- > kxs5829@ultb.isc.rit.edu (K.X. Saunders ) writes:
- >
- > I was a registered DICE user (v 2.06.38). I stopped using it because
- >the code produced is, in general, unreliable (ie buggy). I would recommend
- >Markus Wild's gcc-2.2.2 port which I now use.
- >
-
- I own the registered version of DICE 2.06.something and GCC 2.2.2... And
- GCC 2.2.2 has become my main compiler, also, mostly because of the high
- degree of UNIX-like functionality, C++, reliability (once you set your
- stack over 250k ;^), regular updates (thanks Markus :), and excellent
- code generation. ( I have an 030 box with tons of RAM and disk what do I
- care about system resource usage :^)
-
- (If the GCC 2.2.2 package just had an Amiga GDB port I would be in
- absolute heaven! :^)
-
- FWIW, I ran one benchmark that I had compiled on both GCC and DICE with
- the "same" compiler switches and the GCC version was almost 6 times
- faster. Although I suppose this is worst case... GCC is pretty smart
- about performing optimizations and it seems to know how do a lot of
- different optimizations.
-
- I personally do not think DICE is a bad compiler though, from what I've
- seen it seems like an excellent value for people who want an inexpensive
- C compiler that does not require tons of system resources and provides a
- quirky environment. I didn't notice any fatal bugs (but then I only had
- it for a short time before I got GCC.) and Matt seems pretty responsive
- to problems.
-
-
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- On SECOND thought, maybe I'll heat up some BAKED BEANS and
- watch REGIS PHILBIN.. It's GREAT to be ALIVE!!
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