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Re: VisualC++6.0/egcs-1.1b comparison
- To: ross dot s at ihug dot co dot nz (Ross Smith)
- Subject: Re: VisualC++6.0/egcs-1.1b comparison
- From: Joe Buck <jbuck at synopsys dot com>
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 98 9:18:40 PST
- Cc: egcs at cygnus dot com
> At the moment, the position of the EGCS developers seems to be that
> conforming with the C++ standard has top priority, and optimisations
> can wait. This strikes me as a perfectly reasonable attitude.
Rather, there are (at least) two groups of developers: the C++ front end
folks, who are working intensively on standards conformance, and the
back end folks, who are trying to improve code generation for all
languages.
There's a lot of work going on to improve code generation on for
x86-compatible processors.