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From: "Eric Van Hensbergen" <ericvh@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan 9 on Blue Gene
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On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 1:03 PM, don bailey <don.bailey@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Can you elaborate here? What tricks can the IBM compilers use
>> that the Plan 9 ones can't? Are we talking optimization?
>
> No, really, that's not troll bait. I'm actually interested in
> understanding the project's basis for discriminating against
> specific compiler capability. Obviously Plan 9's compiler
> isn't optimal.. but what really are the requirements people
> want?
>

People want to run the same binaries they are currently running -
those are built with XLC and XLF.

            -eric