From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Apr 21 7:37:20 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.ny.otec.com (mx1.ny.otec.com [209.3.117.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 34CF237B422 for ; Sat, 21 Apr 2001 07:37:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dkelley@otec.com) Received: (qmail 27798 invoked by uid 8064); 21 Apr 2001 15:23:11 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 21 Apr 2001 15:23:11 -0000 Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2001 11:23:11 -0400 (EDT) From: Daniel Kelley X-Sender: dkelley@mx1.ny.otec.com To: Andrew Hesford Cc: FreeBSD-questions Subject: Re: GCC and FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <20010420005012.A95149@cec.wustl.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 20 Apr 2001, Andrew Hesford wrote: > Two questions, the second one a little off-topic, but bear with me: > > 1) If GCC didn't exist, what compiler would FreeBSD contain? > > 2) Since all my programming has been on UNIX systems with GCC, I have no > idea how GCC compares to other compilers. Is it a good one, a mediocre > one, or just the only thing we've got? on average, sacrifices some speed for consistency of interface across platforms. example: our SUNWspro cc compiled code runs about 10-12% faster on SPARCs than if we had compiled with gcc. > > Thanks. > -- > Andrew Hesford > ajh3@chmod.ath.cx > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message