On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 7:53 PM, Octave Orgeron <unixconsole at yahoo.com> wrote: > I disagree on the points about the sun studio compilers. I've seen better > binary and optimization results with sun studio than with GCC. I've worked > with GCC on other platforms, Power and Alpha.. and needless to say it's a > dog. All the development on GCC is really focused on x86 and most > optimizations for other platforms come from the vendors. Sun Studio on the > other hand has a great tool set and the fact that it is free should make the > idea of using GCC dead in my opinion. If anything, just more work around > dealing with GCC-isms would help compile and build FOSS apps. However, the > bigger issue on that front is that many of those FOSS apps are starting to > loose site of the UNIX philosophy of being easily portable between platforms. > So even if you use GCC, it may not work. > > ?*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* > Octave J. Orgeron > Solaris Virtualization Architect and Consultant > Web: http://unixconsole.blogspot.com > E-Mail: unixconsole at yahoo.com > *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
Octave, this was true 20 years ago. Which kind of benchmark did you perform yourself? Yes, also on SPARC? The results might surprise you. But whatever, if nobody believes me, I will prove it. I dont like to fight with / against community fellows. When we have some precise numbers, we can continue our discussion. Until then, regards, %martin
