From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat May 6 13:36:16 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from zippy.cdrom.com (zippy.cdrom.com [204.216.27.228]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3201337B9D0 for ; Sat, 6 May 2000 13:36:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@zippy.cdrom.com) Received: from localhost (jkh@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zippy.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA04899; Sat, 6 May 2000 13:38:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@zippy.cdrom.com) To: Alex Stamos Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [OT] Finding people with GSM phones (was Re: GPS heads up ) In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 06 May 2000 13:00:04 PDT." <391479C4.2784A121@cs.berkeley.edu> Date: Sat, 06 May 2000 13:38:14 -0700 Message-ID: <4896.957645494@localhost> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > GCC and Compaq's proprietary compiler. Compaq's C compiler kicked > GCC's ass in almost every metric. My questions: Is such a compiler > available for *BSD? Not yet. Talk to your friendly Compaq sales rep and request it. :) > Why is GCC so bad at Alpha optimization when it does so well on x86? > Is somebody asleep at the wheel here? I don't know which "somebody" you're even referring to here, so it's hard to answer that question. gcc's alpha optimization will get better when somebody makes it better. The fact that it's weak has been a very well-known fact for over 4 years now, but everyone keeps waiting for "somebody" to ride up on his white horse, I guess. - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message