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Date:      Tue, 4 Mar 2003 23:01:25 -0800
From:      "David O'Brien" <dev-null@NUXI.com>
To:        Jens Rehsack <rehsack@liwing.de>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: PATCH: type errors in src-tree
Message-ID:  <20030305070125.GC92645@dragon.nuxi.com>
In-Reply-To: <3E628ED4.9030203@liwing.de>
References:  <200303022056.h22KuDIg055497@grimreaper.grondar.org> <3E628ED4.9030203@liwing.de>

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On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 12:08:04AM +0100, Jens Rehsack wrote:
> Now, that OpenWatcom is released, the FreeBSd port of it should follow. 
> And maybe someone will try to compile the kernel and world with it.

I hate to be the skeptic, but looking at OpenWatcom 1.0, it only produces
dos and win32 binaries.  It will be a *long* time until it targets Unix
correctly.

> If that would work, this would be great, because the watcom compiler
> generates much better code than gcc does, even than gcc -O3 (and all
> known optimizations on).

Rather than just repeat some old wife's tale; can anyone produce a real
analysis backing this statement up?

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