Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2012 20:40:56 +0400 From: =?UTF-8?B?0JXQstCz0LXQvdC40Lkg0JvQsNC60YLQsNC90L7Qsg==?= <root1101@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CLANG vs GCC tests of fortran/f2c program Message-ID: <4FE1FD18.7010101@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <op.wf7h1df334t2sn@tech304> References: <402199FE-380B-41B6-866B-7D5D66C457D5@lpthe.jussieu.fr> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1206191952250.8234@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <854D02B1-CA89-4F5E-8773-DB05F2868D74@lpthe.jussieu.fr> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1206200618290.46371@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <op.wf7ero1k34t2sn@tech304> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1206201642480.1476@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <op.wf7h1df334t2sn@tech304>
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20.06.2012 18:47, Mark Felder пишет: > On Wed, 20 Jun 2012 09:43:14 -0500, Wojciech Puchar > <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> wrote: > >>> Why not make FreeBSD better for everyone by cooperating with the >>> CLANG project? >> >> because we already have great compiler - GCC. In spite of using GPL >> licence. > > GCC performs well, but it is a very messy undocumented codebase which > makes maintaining it a nightmare. Just ask Google -- you'll find many > others saying the same thing. It would take MORE work to get FreeBSD > devs up to speed on the GCC codebase to add the features we want than > it is to cooperate with the CLANG community and help them make their > compiler better than GCC in every test case. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > It is the classic developer/user argument. It is also stupid. The user side simply doesn't have the same needs, it can't understand how freaking hard it is sometimes to debug a large and complex program in a badly documented environment or worse with undocumented features. If it works faster ergo it is better - that is the only criteria to really have a meaning to a user.
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