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In article <DAupv2.H8n@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
 jwa2n@galen.med.Virginia.EDU (James W. Adams) writes:

>>toby@hobbes.nas.nasa.gov (Toby E. Harness) writes:
>>>hmmm, I don't know about that.  I'd wager SUN has put more hours into their
>>>C compiler than CRI into theirs,  and gcc out-performs SUN's.  ('Course,
>>>there is much more interest in SUNs in the "UNIX/GNU community" than in
>>>CRI systems.)  But, whatever ...

Depends which Sun compiler you're talking about.  I was favorably impressed
by g++'s object code and encouraged some friends to try it out.  They 
installed gcc and benchmarked it, but they had a newer Sun C++ compiler than 
I do.  It trounced g++; they tell me their code runs in about 40% more time 
when compiled with g++.  This was about two months ago--I don't know the 
name or version number of the Sun C++ compiler they were using, but they 
were comparing it to g++ 2.6.3.  (To be fair, g++ optimization for Sparc 
seems to do a better job in 2.7.0 than it did in 2.6.3.)

>Having a variety of tools from which to choose is almost always an
>advantage, even where one may clearly be superior in most cases.

I'll second that.


Tom Ace
tea@netcom.com