Brian Elmegaard wrote: > Robert Kern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>- gcc does not optimize particularly well. > > But well enough for other platforms.
Well, it tends to optimize just as poorly for other platforms, too. It's just frequently the only compiler widely available on those platforms. The goal of the gcc project is to provide a portable compiler, not one that generates the best code for any given platform. And in that goal, it succeeds remarkably well. -- Robert Kern [EMAIL PROTECTED] "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth." -- Umberto Eco -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
