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From: "Thomas Bushnell, BSG" <tb+usenet@becket.net>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Rant (was Re: Plan9 and Ada95?)
Date: Fri,  9 Nov 2001 10:08:42 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d72tvzeq.fsf@becket.becket.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20011108120512.E86D8199BB@mail.cse.psu.edu>

nigel@9fs.org writes:

> >> Has anyone compared the efficiency of the code produced by GCC and the
> >> Plan 9 compiler?
>
> I'm not sure that this is a very important issue, whichever is better.

There's been a lot of noise about how GCC might be more ugly, or
poorly constructed, or such.  I'm asking whether amidst all that noise
anyone has bothered to see whether it actually performs its job better
or worse.  It does seem to me to be an important question in
evaluating tools which one is actually better at the principal job the
tool is designed to perform.


  reply	other threads:[~2001-11-09 10:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 74+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-11-08 12:05 nigel
2001-11-09 10:08 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG [this message]
2001-11-09 13:43   ` Andrey A Mirtchovski
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-11-11 16:32 presotto
2001-11-12 10:44 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-11-10 10:15 forsyth
2001-11-09 22:54 David Gordon Hogan
2001-11-09 22:46 David Gordon Hogan
2001-11-09 22:37 David Gordon Hogan
2001-11-09 22:26 David Gordon Hogan
2001-11-10  0:10 ` William Josephson
2001-11-10  8:29   ` Matthew Hannigan
2001-11-10  8:39     ` Andrey A Mirtchovski
2001-11-11  1:38       ` Steve Kilbane
2001-11-11  3:34         ` Dan Cross
2001-11-11 11:20           ` Steve Kilbane
2001-11-11 17:30             ` Dan Cross
2001-11-12 10:42           ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-11-11  8:25         ` paurea
2001-11-11 17:31           ` Dan Cross
2001-11-09 22:11 David Gordon Hogan
2001-11-12 10:41 ` martin.m.dowie
2001-11-09 14:01 forsyth
2001-11-09 13:54 forsyth
2001-11-12 10:32 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-11-09  7:41 Russ Cox
2001-11-09 17:27 ` Dan Cross
2001-11-08 18:03 anothy
2001-11-09 21:01 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-11-08 15:09 forsyth
2001-11-09 10:17 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-11-08 15:06 forsyth
2001-11-08 15:00 presotto
2001-11-08 12:49 rob pike
2001-11-09 10:09 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-11-12 10:34 ` Andrew Simmons
2001-11-13 10:26   ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-11-08 12:30 bwc
2001-11-08 12:58 ` Re[2]: " Matt
2001-11-09  0:06   ` Noah Diewald
2001-11-09  9:51 ` Taj Khattra
2001-11-08  8:51 Russ Cox
2001-11-08  9:22 ` Lucio De Re
2001-11-08  6:45 anothy
2001-11-08  8:05 ` Lucio De Re
2001-11-08 10:36   ` Christopher Nielsen
2001-11-08 10:39 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-11-08 21:22   ` Matthew Hannigan
2001-11-09  0:30 ` Steve Kilbane
2001-11-09  7:02   ` George Michaelson
2001-11-09 15:52     ` Caffienator
2001-11-09 21:06     ` Boyd Roberts
2001-11-08  1:57 okamoto
2001-11-09  0:22 ` Dan Cross
2001-11-07 21:34 anothy
2001-11-08  5:30 ` Lucio De Re
2001-11-08  5:43   ` George Michaelson
2001-11-08  7:07     ` Jim Choate
2001-11-08  7:40     ` Lucio De Re
2001-11-08 10:40       ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-11-08 20:15       ` Quinn Dunkan
2001-11-08  5:59   ` Andrey A Mirtchovski
2001-11-08  7:16 ` Steve Kilbane
2001-11-29  4:44 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-11-07 19:58 forsyth
2001-11-07 20:18 ` Lucio De Re
2001-11-07 19:25 forsyth
2001-11-07 20:14 ` Lucio De Re
2001-11-08 10:38 ` Caffienator
2001-11-07 18:56 David Gordon Hogan
2001-11-07 19:33 ` Lucio De Re
2001-11-08  1:43 ` Dan Cross
2001-11-29  5:01 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-11-07 17:54 [9fans] Re: Plan9 and Ada95? David Gordon Hogan
2001-11-07 18:26 ` [9fans] Rant (was Re: Plan9 and Ada95?) Lucio De Re
2001-11-08 10:39   ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG

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