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Re: Sun compares their compiler tools to GNU tools
- To: pfeifer at dbai dot tuwien dot ac dot at (Gerald Pfeifer)
- Subject: Re: Sun compares their compiler tools to GNU tools
- From: Colin Douglas Howell <howell at cs dot stanford dot edu>
- Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1998 16:38:23 -0800 (PST)
- Cc: egcs at cygnus dot com, howell at cs dot stanford dot edu
Gerald Pfeifer writes:
>
> On Wed, 4 Nov 1998, Colin Douglas Howell wrote:
> > Sun has published a marketing comparison of their compiler suite,
> > Visual WorkShop C++ 3.0, with the GNU compiler tools. See the URL:
> >
> > http://www.sun.com/workshop/visual/
>
> Shall we add some official reply from EGCS developers and testers) to our
> web page?
>
> Gerald
>
> BTW, the page at the URL above is ridiculous, and this is the main page
> of that product! No link to more detailed information is evident.
>
> . What's ``the latest from GNU'' in ``We examined the performance of the
> Sun C and C++ compilers, comparing them with the latest from GNU''?
>
> . Customer application (C code) 7%-30%
> No source code available? What does the range mean?
To be fair to Sun, they do give more information. I gave that URL
because it was where the initial blurb for "Sun vs. GNU" was made.
The detailed white paper is accessible from the 3 links just under the
"What's Hot!" heading:
NEW Moving to Sun Visual WorkShop: A
How and Why Transition Guide for GNU
Developers
HTML | PS | PDF
The words "HTML | PS | PDF" are the links and provide the white paper
in three different formats.
The customer application mentioned is described in the white paper.
Also the phrase "latest from GNU" is a bit disingenuous, if not
downright wrong. Most of their comparisons are against egcs 1.0.1;
one is against gcc 2.7.2.2. Hardly the latest.
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