[geeks] Daily Dose of Unix

[Dave McGuire]

On Friday, January 31, 2003, at 05:48 PM, Frank Van Damme wrote:
>> A ANSI C compiler is part of the base system. This compiler generates
>> much better code than GCC (2.x). I have seen the difference when
>> comparing the 500au to an other 500 MHz EV56 Alpha running NetBSD. No
>> detaild benchmarking, the Tru64 applications feel just faster when 
>> using
>> e.g. gv / Ghostscript. You have to pay extra $$$ for debugger etc. and
>> the C++ compiler.
>
> I haven't heard much good from gcc for non-x86 platforms.

   The impression I get is that, in general, it's great for CISC 
processors and crappy for anything RISC or post-RISC.  I know for a 
fact that it's very good for VAX and m68k (two extremely CISC 
processors) and x86 (definitely CISC).

        -Dave

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