From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <4890ACDD.5070306@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 12:03:09 -0600 From: don bailey User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (X11/20080421) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> References: <488B6EE7.3080100@mtu.edu> <1217421120.5036.34.camel@goose.sun.com> <13426df10807300810s4d854612ib7597a9463f7f02f@mail.gmail.com> <13426df10807300840lb13f30aw18b6f8def086ef31@mail.gmail.com> <4890A6B0.4070901@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4890A6B0.4070901@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan 9 on Blue Gene Topicbox-Message-UUID: f6d36a80-ead3-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > Can you elaborate here? What tricks can the IBM compilers use > that the Plan 9 ones can't? Are we talking optimization? > No, really, that's not troll bait. I'm actually interested in understanding the project's basis for discriminating against specific compiler capability. Obviously Plan 9's compiler isn't optimal.. but what really are the requirements people want? D