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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu, geoff@collyer.net
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Subject: Re: [9fans] ports from GPL
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Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2006 18:59:04 -0600
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exactly. and my point is that the resulting code (after all that waiting),
isn't a lick faster. gcc is even slower than tcc for most of the tests that
i ran the last time i tried.

- erik

p.s. awk-cc?! ... man.

geoff@collyer.net writes

|
| > however gnu has devolved.  they seem to value compiling on anything,
| > and efficiency, but they don't seem to value simplicity.
|
| It's a skewed form of concern about efficiency though.  In the case of
| gcc, they worry about run-time of the generated program, but not about
| the time it takes to compile it.  gcc seems to get slower with each
| release.  I don't know if gcc 4 is the slowest C compiler on the
| planet (I suspect that Henry Spencer's never-finished aacc, written in
| awk, might take that title), but it's the slowest one I've used.