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Date:      Mon, 18 Jun 2012 19:17:18 +0000
From:      David Brodbeck <gull@gull.us>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Why Clang
Message-ID:  <CAHhngE0eLR9PEoyn2TLuV7%2Bz7NtsHMgdsj6YbSm3ZQijDxTNjw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1206181829210.99007@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
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On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 4:37 PM, Wojciech Puchar
<wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> wrote:
> And the facts are: Lots of worktime were spent to make new C compiler from
> scratch and this resulted with thing 5 times larger, working at similar
> speed and producing similar code to GCC that is already considered bloat.

> The truth is sad. Starting from fresh and not being able to beat 25-year old
> bloated gcc is just funny.

Another way of looking at it is after 25 years of optimization GCC is
unable to beat a new compiler that's had almost none...



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