From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu From: "Thomas Bushnell, BSG" Message-ID: <87d72tvzeq.fsf@becket.becket.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii References: <20011108120512.E86D8199BB@mail.cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] Rant (was Re: Plan9 and Ada95?) Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2001 10:08:42 +0000 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 1c0ca4ba-eaca-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 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.