From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu From: ozan s yigit Message-ID: References: <181b9e858518e43368953c1050365780@plan9.bell-labs.com>, <3C7C829F.D7A24A28@san.rr.com>, <87664jxrsw.fsf@becket.becket.net> Subject: Re: [9fans] GUI toolkit for Plan 9 Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 09:57:34 +0000 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 5ae09714-eaca-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 "Thomas Bushnell, BSG" writes: > Incidentally, the reason GCC has gobs of people working on it is > pretty darn simple. It's because GCC has a license which encourages > gobs of people to work on it. well, lcc has a license that would not be offensive to most people, but to my knowledge, the same kind of effort is not expanded on it. except norman wilson, noone uses it in production. so it does not optimize; there has been a few optimizers that can be wired with lcc (as i pointed out in the distant past), but noone wants to bother. there must be another reason why people keep hacking gcc to death. maybe it is complexity or fame or both; certainly easier to get name recognition with gcc than with lcc for sure... oz -- www.cs.yorku.ca/~oz | don't count your chickens in glass houses york u. computer science | until the cows come home. -- david vestal