On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 10:27 PM, Eric S. Raymond wrote: > I have not run direct checks on the quality of the optimized code, but > reports from others that it is improved seem plausible in light of > the fact that GCC's optimization technology is two decades older in > origin.
Yay, another "fact". You must have missed the almost complete rewrite of GCC's optimization framework that was merged in 2004 and that's been continuously improved since than: http://gcc.gnu.org/projects/tree-ssa/ Really. Do your homework. Ciao! Steven
