UNIX admin wrote:
QEMU - on the other hand - is happy with gcc and
binutils alone, which
are widely available for almost any platform.
Except that GCC generates slow, crappy code. It's a big slap in GCC team's face that Sun
comes to i86pc as a latecomer with their compiler and trods them into the ground on their
own "home turf".
How many years has GCC been evolving on the i86pc platform ag
This sort of polarizing remark isn't exactly useful. Gcc often
generates good code, sometimes better that the Studio compilers,
sometimes worse. On SPARC its track record is more mixed, but
that's really more of a code generation issue. There are many
very useful features in gcc; the support for inline assembler is
much better in gcc than in Studio, for example. On the other hand,
most floating point code (esp. hpc) yields significantly better
results with Studio.
There are no bug free compilers.
{Open}Solaris will compile with either one, and I for one will
argue to keep it that way.
- Bart
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Bart Smaalders Solaris Kernel Performance
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