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From: "Thomas Bushnell, BSG" <tb+usenet@becket.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Rant (was Re: Plan9 and Ada95?)
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 10:44:52 +0000
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presotto@closedmind.org writes:

> I wouldn't put GCC at the other end of the spectrum; SUIF owns
> that extremity.

There's no doubt that GCC is not the best C compiler in the world.
But (when user -O), the tradeoffs in GCC are always towards making the
optimizer better at the expense of perhaps taking more compile time.

The non-optimized version is entirely subsidiary; the goal there is to
use parts of the "real" compiler in order to go as fast as possible.
A compiler optimized for fast translation would surely do better.