From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu From: Robin KAY Message-ID: <1049573892.18502.0@ersa.uk.clara.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: , <20030404230724.GA43336@mero.morphisms.net> Subject: Re: [9fans] fast compilers Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2003 09:06:58 +0000 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 8b76188a-eacb-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 jkw@eecs.harvard.edu wrote: > The Intel folks have managed to produce an ia32 compiler > that is much faster than gcc and yet much more interested > in highly optimized code than the Plan 9 cc, so I'm not sure > I buy this argument. :-/ Don't forget that gcc targets many more architectures than just IA32. Abstraction (e.g. the RTL layer) must cost it in terms of performance. -- Wishing you good fortune, --Robin Kay-- (komadori)