> On Sun, 29 Mar 1998, Marco Iannacone wrote:
>
>
> I'm surprised it runs at all. pgcc simply doesn't work very well. It
> introduces lots of subtle bugs into complex programs. I would never
> compile the kernel or an X server with it. egcs is much better.
I never tried that... I was just asking 'cause I read on their site
that their distribution is already available, completely optimized
with pgcc and there to be downloaded....
> In
> addition, not everyone has a Pentium.
This is true! but also not everyone has a SPARC but this is not a
reason for not having a SPARC or an Alpha distribution...
> pgcc will produce a slowdown on
> AMD, Cyrix, 486, and Pentium pro/II at least equal to the Pentium
> speedups.
>
As I said, I never tried it, but from what they say the performance
are better also on those CPU (see stampede.org for more details)
regards,
Marco
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