Hi,
Michael Rans wrote:
Yes it can still be built with gcc and I believe the Arch release
still uses it so that it can use the default GNUstep base. From what I
have heard, performance is better for the clang version.
that is good.
Performance of the game or generally in GNUstep? Clang runtime has some
specific optimizations gcc is still lacking. Could be that your game
code benefits from them?
However in general desktop usage I found gcc to perform better.
May I ask why you want to continue building it with gcc rather than
clang? The reason I ask is that I had been considering whether the
game should become clang only to allow usage of Objective-C syntax
improvements in the modern clang runtime.
Many reasons, it is an often recurring topic. Major reasons:
- on several platforms gcc is just easier to install and setup, albeit
on certain others, clang+libobjc2 is quick and easy
- platform support, gcc supports certain OS & architecture combinations
that libobcj2 does not or has major bugs on
- out-of-the-box compiler. FreeBSD and OpenBSD (on most archs at least)
default to clang as system compiler, NetBSD or Debian default to gcc.
Other compilers are available, but as an extra
Riccardo
