From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed Nov 10 14:28:25 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from alcanet.com.au (border.alcanet.com.au [203.62.196.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8393815403 for ; Wed, 10 Nov 1999 14:28:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jeremyp@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au) Received: by border.alcanet.com.au id <40323>; Thu, 11 Nov 1999 09:22:03 +1100 Content-return: prohibited Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 09:27:56 +1100 From: Peter Jeremy Subject: Re: Tru64 Unix for $99 In-reply-to: To: alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au Message-Id: <99Nov11.092203est.40323@border.alcanet.com.au> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre3i Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii References: Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 1999-Nov-05 17:51:11 +1100, Tom Sparks wrote: >For $100 you get a Compaq optimized compiler (apparently much better than >GCC/EGCS), headers, libraries, and who knows what else. It is supposed to generate much better code, but I just tried "md5 -t" as a (not particularly useful) benchmark and found that it was marginally slower than gcc 2.8.1 (both running maximal static optimisation). On the downside: - It's C-only. C++ is unbundled. - It (obviously) doesn't support the gcc extensions - I find the format of its error messages annoying - There's less control over the level of warning messages and it whinges about things that I don't normally care about. Peter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message