Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 09:27:56 +1100 From: Peter Jeremy <jeremyp@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au> To: alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Tru64 Unix for $99 Message-ID: <99Nov11.092203est.40323@border.alcanet.com.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9911042248020.43072-100000@fortress.itixs.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9911050137520.330-100000@picnic.mat.net> <Pine.BSF.4.10.9911042248020.43072-100000@fortress.itixs.com>
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On 1999-Nov-05 17:51:11 +1100, Tom Sparks wrote: >For $100 you get a Compaq optimized compiler (apparently much better than >GCC/EGCS), headers, libraries, and who knows what else. It is supposed to generate much better code, but I just tried "md5 -t" as a (not particularly useful) benchmark and found that it was marginally slower than gcc 2.8.1 (both running maximal static optimisation). On the downside: - It's C-only. C++ is unbundled. - It (obviously) doesn't support the gcc extensions - I find the format of its error messages annoying - There's less control over the level of warning messages and it whinges about things that I don't normally care about. Peter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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