On 10/2/07, Rogelio Serrano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: .. > This is because the expertise is locked up in oracle. In open source > projects the knowledge get shared and refined and then applied several > hundred times over. Thats what happened in gcc and linux. You > eventually end up with more experts than when you started.
This is a laugh!!! You know, GCC for all the eyeballs working on it, SUCKS! Did you know that on modern and even not-so-modern Intel CPU's code emitted by GCC is HALF THE SPEED of that emitted by the Intel compiler? And I don't mean Intel Compiler code on Intel CPU. Even on an AMD Opteron the Intel Compiler emits fantastic code. I was wondering why TimesTen (an Oracle product) was twice as fast on Windows as on Linux. I couldn't believe Linux was that sucky. Turns out it's not Linux's fault. It's the shitty optimizer in GCC. _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
