On Sun, 27 Apr 2008, James Cornell wrote: > Is for KDE and X.org, maybe not Inkscape but trust me on this. Especially > for SPARC systems it means everything. If you've ever used GCC on IRIX/MIPS > you'd know how convoluted and slow it is for non-x86 architectures. For x86 > it's still suffering for large packages such as KDE. Don't believe me, then > try the old KDE blastwave package and then try KDE 4 from spec using Spro. I > wouldn't call it an abstraction either, libtool and gcc toolchain is just > pure garbage with too much complexity within itself and the licensing future > is scary.
These are interesting statements. GCC on IRIX/MIPS (at least your apparent experience of it) is so old as to not even be considered. I find that GCC compiles much faster than the Sun compiler for x86: GCC 4.2.3: gmake -j 4 86.56s user 3.93s system 310% cpu 29.189 total Sun Studio 12: gmake -j 4 187.54s user 11.86s system 302% cpu 1:05.90 total The above builds are both using libtool, which you describe as "pure garbage". As for the Sun compiler on SPARC, I must agree. With the Sun compiler, an old 1.2GHz SPARC CPU can stand up and sing like a 2.4GHz Intel CPU when fed code which was tuned for GCC. Bob ====================================== Bob Friesenhahn bfriesen at simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/
