Re: [9fans] Rant (was Re: Plan9 and Ada95?)

[Andrey A Mirtchovski <aam396@mail.usask.ca>]

plan9's compilers generate code with comparably equal performance to gcc
2.9.5

no, the code is not faster, no, the code is not noticeably slower for jobs
that do not require 5 days to complete (image rendering is what I have
tested -- povray on identical hardware).

that much I can say.

andrey

On Fri, 9 Nov 2001, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:

> 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.
>