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.