Re: YES! GCC is a good RISC!

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From: Arthur David Olson
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 1991 13:56

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In article <15493@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM>, chased@rbbb.Eng.Sun.COM (David Chase) writes:
> There's also the problem that some of the SPECmarks are library
> intensive. . .so unless you also compile the libraries with gcc,
> what you're really measuring is the speed of code compiled by Sun's compilers
> (of some unspecified version at some unspecified optimization level)
> but called by GCC.

I'm eager for Sun to make its library source code available so a fair
test can be run.  If Sun isn't planning to do so, complaining about the
unfairness of the test seems, to me, poor form.
-- 
		Arthur David Olson	ado@elsie.nci.nih.gov
		ADO and Elsie are Ampex and Borden trademarks

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