Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2001 11:23:11 -0400 (EDT) From: Daniel Kelley <dkelley@otec.com> To: Andrew Hesford <ajh3@chmod.ath.cx> Cc: FreeBSD-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: GCC and FreeBSD Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.04.10104211121140.27677-100000@mx1.ny.otec.com> In-Reply-To: <20010420005012.A95149@cec.wustl.edu>
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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
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