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Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2006 03:06:21 +1000
From: "Bruce Ellis" <bruce.ellis@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] new compilers
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i mate, who has this habit shared by me, in that he writes
programs that write programs.  for a 4000 line program
(generated) gcc uses more than 1G of ram and takes all
night to compile it.  kenc zaps it.

brucee

On 3/26/06, Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ca> wrote:
> > I have fond memories of threatining the Sun sales sloths with death
> > and worse if they didn't at least ship .h files after they
> > unbundled the C compiler.  Sun is as responsible for GCC as the
> > AT&T lawyers are responsible for Linux.
>
> Ignoring the lawyers, gcc out-ran all of the Sun compilers for
> years.  It wasn't until ~2001 when I saw demonstrable proof that the
> Sun compilers were ready to outrun the GNU bloatationiousness.  But
> meanwhile, Sun's hubris lead to others not only unbundling, but
> actually spending that money on compiler design!  I still love the
> mipsco compilers that quote chapter and verse of the ANSI spec.  And
> they worked even before DEC got MIPSed.  Oh wait, that was the
> *other* DEC CPU.  (6,7,8,10,VAX,MIPS,???)  Still, the compiler worked
> across all of them.
>