exactly. and my point is that the resulting code (after all that waiting), isn't a lick faster. gcc is even slower than tcc for most of the tests that i ran the last time i tried.
- erik p.s. awk-cc?! ... man. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes | | > however gnu has devolved. they seem to value compiling on anything, | > and efficiency, but they don't seem to value simplicity. | | It's a skewed form of concern about efficiency though. In the case of | gcc, they worry about run-time of the generated program, but not about | the time it takes to compile it. gcc seems to get slower with each | release. I don't know if gcc 4 is the slowest C compiler on the | planet (I suspect that Henry Spencer's never-finished aacc, written in | awk, might take that title), but it's the slowest one I've used.
