The original words were The SPARC compiler is also solid and fast, although we haven't used it for a few years, due to a lack of current hardware. We have seen it do much better than GCC with all the optimizations, but on average it is probably about the same.
I suspect the comparison is with GCC rather than Sun Studio 8/9/10 because GCC is free (as in beer) rather than because it is the holy grail of compiler development. > John Stalker wrote: > > > On a related note, the plan9 sparc compiler was claimed to produce > > code comparable in speed to GCC. Does anyone know how it compares > > to Sun's compiler? > > > well, there's a blast from the past: > > "gcc code output quality used as 'good' in compiler comparison" :-) > > ron -- John Stalker University of Dublin, Trinity College School of Mathematics
