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(Please suggest a better place for this question to be asked if you 
think there is one.)

Partly out of curiosity, and partly out of a desire to know how well
GNU C will fit my future needs, I'd like to know just how close to the
high end of compiler technology the GNU C compiler is.

With my admittedly small knowledge of GNU C itself and current compiler
technology in general, I would think that GNU C is at least on or near
par with (at least) commercial compilers, etc. Note that I don't want any
philosophical debates about GPL or something, I want cold hard performance
facts and data on the internals of GNU C. For example, the optimizations
used: what ones are 'new' to GNU C, does it use pretty much all the existing
ones, can it perform these optimizations on an arbitrary machine as well as
the chip vendor's compiler, etc.?

From my look at some of the code in the compiler, I would think that it 
does a more-than-acceptable job on all these things. It seems incredible
to me that GNU C can be compiled on, and compile for, as many machines
as it can.

          Thanks for listening to me ramble,
                  Steven Ourada
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