On 27 July 2015 at 13:08, Aram Hăvărneanu <aram.h@mgk.ro> wrote:

> 'd expect GCC compiling Plan 9 at a speed reasonably comparable to kencc.


I used gcc for one of my own OS projects years ago, without all the
#include crud.
It is slow. For one thing, it still(!) produces textual assembly code
(because the PDP-11 compiler did that)
which must then be assembled.