From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Jan 4 15:27: 8 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7BCF337B401 for ; Sat, 4 Jan 2003 15:27:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from papagena.rockefeller.edu (papagena.rockefeller.edu [129.85.41.71]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC4E043E4A for ; Sat, 4 Jan 2003 15:27:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rsidd@papagena.rockefeller.edu) Received: (from rsidd@localhost) by papagena.rockefeller.edu (8.11.6/8.11.6) id h04NPwL11816; Sat, 4 Jan 2003 18:25:58 -0500 Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2003 18:25:58 -0500 From: Rahul Siddharthan To: Brett Glass Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Bystander shot by a spam filter Message-ID: <20030104182558.A11809@papagena.rockefeller.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20030104112015.026a5530@localhost> X-Operating-System: Linux 2.4.9-12smp i686 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Brett Glass wrote: > GCC just happens to be the tool that comes in the package > (which is a shame, IMHO; it's not a very good compiler.) GCC 3.2.1 seems to perform around as well, on my code, as Intel's compiler. Which is quite remarkable, since Intel's compiler is tailored for their own chip and written by their in-house experts, while GCC is cross-platform and written by third parties. There are other benchmarks out there which suggest GCC is not far behind ICC, and even beats it on some tests: see, eg, http://www.coyotegulch.com/reviews/intel_comp/intel_gcc_bench2.html As for standards compliance (C99 etc), gcc is, on the whole, ahead of nearly everyone else. That's nothing new: at one time gcc was the only available ANSI C compiler on Sun machines -- Sun's own compiler didn't follow the ANSI standard. - Rahul To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message