Re: Compiler choice for OSS (WAS: Re: Trouble with Mozilla Java plugin)

2003-06-02 Thread Leandro Guimarães Faria Corsetti Dutra
On Sun, 01 Jun 2003 15:31:27 +0200, Nicos Gollan wrote: > If you want high speed and the last bit of optimization, you > might be better off with something else like Intel's ICC which can be a _lot_ > faster for some tasks. If you want high speed, you are running a RISC SMP where Intel

Re: Compiler choice for OSS (WAS: Re: Trouble with Mozilla Java plugin)

2003-06-02 Thread Aryan Ameri
On Sunday 01 June 2003 15:09, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > --- Aryan Ameri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > > The compiler version is always important (due to the nature of C). > > For example Mozilla 1.4 can be compiled with gcc on windows, but no > > plugin would then work with it, because all the pl

Re: Compiler choice for OSS (WAS: Re: Trouble with Mozilla Java plugin)

2003-06-01 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Sunday 01 June 2003 14:09, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > This is something I have always wondered about. Why do OSS projects use > gcc for every platform except Windows? I thought one of the great > advantages of gcc was that is was ported to pretty much every operating > system. Why not just alwa