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GNU GCC Vs Sun's Compiler on a SPARC

Posted by timothy on from the real-numbers dept.

JigSaw writes "When doing research for his evaluation of Solaris 9 on his Ultra 5, Tony Bourke kept running into the same comment online over and over again: Sun's C compiler produces much faster code than GCC does. However, he couldn't find one set of benchmarks to back this up and so he did his own."

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  1. OT,but someone has to make the [NO CARRIER] joke by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    I used Sun's new compiler to compile new drivers for my old 14.4 faxmod=20 ]} } } }&..}=3Dr}'}"}[NO CARRIER]

  2. Re:Why does this suprise ANYONE by duffbeer703 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Those are Richard Stallman's goals, which don't really mirror anybody else's.

    And since the excerpt was from the info pages for GCC, you and stallman are likely the only humans to have ever read it.

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    Conformity is the jailer of freedom and enemy of growth. -JFK
  3. Re:[TROLL]Re:ah 2.95.3, we hardly knew ye by Brandybuck · · Score: 2, Funny

    Using DEPRECATED compilers is just as stupid as using DEPRECATED kernels(2.4, just to name one)

    Reason number 27 that I switched from Linux to FreeBSD. I got sick and tired of being treated like a lame poser just because I was still using last week's kernel.

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    Don't blame me, I didn't vote for either of them!
  4. Re:[TROLL]Re:ah 2.95.3, we hardly knew ye by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Reason 2 why I switched from FreeBSD to Linux: Linux creams FreeBSD in performance. Reason 1: FreeBSD zealots.