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IBM Releases XL compilers for Mac OS X

Posted by pudge on Wednesday January 14, 2004 @08:03AM from the faster-you-say dept.

Visigothe writes "IBM released their XL Fortran Compiler and XL C/C++ Compiler for OS X. The compiler is binary compatible with GCC 3.3, and has multiple levels of optimization, creating binaries that are much faster than their GCC-compiled counterparts." No prices are noted, and the planned availability date is January 16.

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Supports Objective-C! by jazuki · 2004-01-14 08:16 · Score: 4, Insightful

Very cool! Looks like the C/C++ compiler also has support for Objective-C now. Even if it's in the form of a "technology preview" and probably preliminary.

This means that this could well be usable as a replacement for GCC in developing Cocoa-based apps. It's good to finally have some options. Can't wait to see how well it works!