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From: John Stalker <stalker@maths.tcd.ie>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] sparc port, number crunching
Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 16:45:23 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200510111645.aa48099@salmon.maths.tcd.ie> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 11 Oct 2005 07:16:44 MDT." <434BBB3C.6030205@lanl.gov>

The original words were

  The SPARC compiler is also solid and fast, although we haven't used
  it for a few years, due to a lack of current hardware. We have seen
  it do much better than GCC with all the optimizations, but on average
  it is probably about the same.

I suspect the comparison is with GCC rather than Sun Studio 8/9/10
because GCC is free (as in beer) rather than because it is the holy
grail of compiler development.

> John Stalker wrote:
> 
> > On a related note, the plan9 sparc compiler was claimed to produce
> > code comparable in speed to GCC.  Does anyone know how it compares
> > to Sun's compiler?
> 
> 
> well, there's a blast from the past:
> 
> "gcc code output quality used as 'good' in compiler comparison" :-)
> 
> ron

--
John Stalker
University of Dublin, Trinity College
School of Mathematics


  reply	other threads:[~2005-10-11 15:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-10-10 15:33 John Stalker
2005-10-10 19:44 ` LiteStar numnums
2005-10-10 19:50 ` Russ Cox
2005-10-11  8:19   ` John Stalker
2005-10-11 13:16     ` Ronald G Minnich
2005-10-11 15:45       ` John Stalker [this message]
2005-10-11 23:45         ` Charles Forsyth
2005-10-12  0:25           ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2005-10-12  1:41             ` erik quanstrom
2005-10-12  0:05   ` Christopher Nielsen

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