From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Jul 14 5:31:29 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from po3.wam.umd.edu (po3.wam.umd.edu [128.8.10.165]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AFEE237BEFB for ; Fri, 14 Jul 2000 05:31:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from howardjp@wam.umd.edu) Received: from rac10.wam.umd.edu (root@rac10.wam.umd.edu [128.8.10.150]) by po3.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA04676; Fri, 14 Jul 2000 08:30:47 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rac10.wam.umd.edu (sendmail@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by rac10.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id IAA05714; Fri, 14 Jul 2000 08:30:52 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rac10.wam.umd.edu (howardjp@localhost) by rac10.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA05709; Fri, 14 Jul 2000 08:30:51 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <200007141230.IAA05709@rac10.wam.umd.edu> X-Authentication-Warning: rac10.wam.umd.edu: howardjp owned process doing -bs To: Rahul Siddharthan Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Pet Theory for World Domination In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 14 Jul 2000 11:52:58 +0530." <20000714115258.A804@physics.iisc.ernet.in> Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 08:30:44 -0400 From: James Howard Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In message <20000714115258.A804@physics.iisc.ernet.in>, Rahul Siddharthan write s: > James Howard said on Jul 13, 2000 at 17:44:47: > > Now hear me out on this. I just read the OSOpinion discussion of SCO's > > future and that a Linux company should buy it out. Forget that, it is a > > better match for BSDi. BSDi would then have everything, including a > > compiler, to build a full Unix without the GPL in the way. BSDi would > > I'm curious: how does SCO's compiler compare with gcc, speed-wise and > optimisation-wise? What about the c++ compiler? And do they have a > good fortran compiler? Anyone know? Heresay and conjectre follows, here be dragons, be warned. I have heard SCO's beats the pants off every both in compiler performance and in performance of generated code. This would seem to make sense since they are not hot to trot for portability and can genuienly focus on one or two platforms. J~ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message