Re: [9fans] GCC3.0 [Was; Webbrowser]

["William K. Josephson" <jkw@morphisms.net>]

On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 12:32:52PM -0500, David Presotto wrote:
>themselves were not at all OS tests, they pretty much test the compiler
>and malloc and nothing else. There's a little pipe stuff in there to implement
>locks but they looked like pretty high level locks.

Not to mention that the repeated comparisons with gcc
get tiresome: gcc is really not as great as many proponents
make it out to be, even on the ia32.  I'm very glad to have
it and use it regularly, but it is much slower than either
8c or the vendor compiler and generates substantially slower
code than the vendor compiler, at least in my experience.
It isn't uncommon to see Intel's compiler beat gcc by 30-40%
and I haven't found any non-trivial examples where gcc beats
the Microsoft or Intel compilers, although they may well
exist.  If someone has the time, money, and warm bodies to
invest, great, otherwise I'll port a few assembly routines
when it really matters and get on with my life.  Premature
obfusc^H^H^H^H^Hoptimization is the root of all evil.