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Re: Don't shoot the messenger
- From: Steven Bosscher <stevenb dot gcc at gmail dot com>
- To: "Eric S. Raymond" <esr at thyrsus dot com>
- Cc: GCC Mailing List <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2014 22:37:26 +0100
- Subject: Re: Don't shoot the messenger
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- References: <20140123212747 dot 6FE32380525 at snark dot thyrsus dot com>
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