>>> >>> Generally Blastwave should and does work on SX. >>> There's already gcc included in Solaris (and SX) - however there's no >>> gdb (yet). Eventually go with gcc from Blastwave - works fine. >>> >>> Additionally you may want to try Sun Studio 11 as Denis pointed out - >>> it's free and with SXCR 55 (which should be publicly available really >>> soon now I hope) Sun Studio is already included. > > > DC> Can you imagine how long I have waited for a _real_ compiler to > delivered > DC> with UNIX? Once again ? > > DC> let's all do the time warp again ... > > Yeah, I'm also glad SS will be integrated. > > However I wouldn't assume that it's always better than gcc - it's not. > Some time ago we did some tests with our application and gcc actually > produced faster binaries than SS10 (or 9) on SPARC. Yes, we even tried > -fast, still slower. With other app it actually produced faster > application. So at least when it comes to performance I guess it > depends on application which compiler would provide faster binaries. > > Nevertheless SS gonna provide complete and mature developer > environment OOB which is great.
well ... I'm not going to get into a compiler holy war but let's just say that "-fast" is not the optimal way to go. Its just an easy way. let's just be happy that cc will be in there dc _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
