Mail Archives: djgpp/1997/09/13/01:39:47
On Fri, 12 Sep 1997 sumatose AT NOSPAM DOT usa DOT net wrote:
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> I have to agree with this. gcc is widely known and accepted.
> University student can access gcc on all the computers at school,
> because the school just love the fact that it's free. HOWEVER,
> workstation manufacturers like Sun, SGI, IBM and others have
> their own C++ compiler which consistenly 'beat the sh**' out of
> gcc with compilation speed and optimization. It's just a known
> fact, if you have worked on these workstations. Think that we
> compile on SGI with gcc???
>
Yes!
I'm one of those unfortunates stuck with the IRIX 5.3 IDO. I know that the
MIPSpro 7.0 compiler for IRIX 6.x beats the sh** out of GCC on the R10K
platform, but I'm using IRIX 5.3 on an R5K, and GCC is significantly (20%)
faster at full-hilt optimization.
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